Roman Stoicism / being lectures on the history of the Stoic philosophy with special reference to its development within the Roman Empire

by Edward Vernon Arnold

4.

But if it was through astonishment at their power and influence,

Let them understand from them how much more powerful is he that formed them:

5.

For from the greatness of the beauty even of created things

In like proportion does man form the image of their first maker.

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But yet for these men there is but small blame,

For they too peradventure do but go astray

While they are seeking God and desiring to find him.