[359] Bk. i, ch. ii, § 8. Plutarch (Isis and Osiris, ch. 8) puts the more decent principle that all the apparent absurdities have good occult reasons. [↑]
[360] Bk. ix, ch. iii, § 12. Cp. bk. x, ch. iii, § 23. The hand of an interpolator frequently appears in Strabo (e.g., bk. ix, ch. ii, § 40; ch. iii, § 5); and the passage cited in bk. i is more in the style of the former than of the latter. [↑]
[361] See Dr. Hatch, Influence of Greek Ideas upon the Christian Church, 1890, pp. 60–64, notes; also above, pp. 143 and 161, note. [↑]
[362] De defect. orac. c. 19; Isis and Osiris, ch. 67. [↑]
[363] De Amore, c. 13; Isis and Osiris, chs. 66, 67; and De defect. orac. c. 13. [↑]
[364] Schmidt, Gesch. der Denk- und Glaubensfreiheit im erst. Jahr., 1847, p. 22. [↑]
[365] Burnet, Early Greek Philos. 1892, p. 276. Cp. 2nd ed. p. 294. [↑]
[366] It is to be presumed that Dr. Burnet, when penning his estimate, had not in memory such a record as Dr. A. D. White’s History of the Warfare between Science and Theology. [↑]