[1814] De Groot, Religious System of China, Religion of the Chinese, and Development of Religion in China.
[1815] Prescott, Conquest of Peru; Spence, Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru.
[1816] An approach to such a system appears in the later cult of Confucius.
[1817] See § 977.
[1818] So later, for example, in Plato, necessity appears as something limiting the deity. See below, § 1001. Cf. Cicero, De Fato.
[1819] Cf. the Chinese conception of the supreme order of the world. Possibly this goes back to the general savage conception of mana.
[1820] Metaphysics, ix, 8; xii, 6 f.
[1821] Timæus, 47 f.
[1822] Stobæus, Elogæ, ed. Wachsmuth, lib. i, cap. i, no. 12; Pearson, Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes; Eng. tr. in Arnold, Roman Stoicism, p. 85 ff. The quotation in Acts xvii, 28, may be from Cleanthes or from Aratus. On the Græco-Roman Stoicism and the relation between it and Christianity see Arnold, op. cit.
[1823] Apuleius, Metamorphoses, bk. xi; Roscher, Lexikon, article "Isis"; Cumont, Mysteries of Mithra; id., Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans, Index, s.vv. Isis and Serapis and Mithra.