Fecit.’
But Pythagoras only enunciates the doctrine of Eastern antiquity; that is, of the Egyptians, the Chaldæans, and the Hindoos. But since Pythagoras introduced this doctrine in the West, if it has ever slumbered, it has perpetually re-originated. Lyell shows that among the Greeks it was taught by Aristotle; among the Romans by Strabo; among the Saracens by Avicenna; in Italy by Moro, Geneselli, and Targioni; and in England by Ray, Hutton, and Playfair.”—Rain and Rivers, by Col. George Greenwood. Longmans, 1866. 2d edit.
[197] Gen. vi. 18; viii. 15; vi. 13; ix. 8; viii. 20; ix. 20; and Ecclesiasticus xliv. 1, 3, 4, 19, “The covenants of the world were made with Him.”
[198] I feel justified in bringing in attestation also the following verses of the “Oracula Sybillina,” for, as I have already said, even if they be forgeries of the second century A.D., they at any rate represent the tradition at that date (i. v. 270):—
“Noë fidelis amans æqui servata periclis
Egredere audenter, simul et cum conjuge nati
Tresque nurus: et vos terræ loca vasta replete,
Crescite multiplice numero, sacrataque jura
Tradite natorum natis....
Hinc nova progenies hinc ætas aurea prima