[68.] The celebrated Greek philosopher who taught that the sun was a mass of heated stone, and various other astronomical doctrines. Some critics say Anaxarchus is meant here.
[69.] See Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” lib. I. 254—
“The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
And also Lucretius—
“Hic Acherusia fit stultorum denique vita.”—iii. 1023.
[70.] Keck says here—“So did they all, as Lactantius has observed at large. Aristotle is said to have been guilty of great vanity in his clothes, of incontinency, and of unfaithfulness to his master, Alexander II.”
[71.] Phalaris, king of Agrigentum, who, when Perillus made a brazen bull in which to kill criminals, placed him in it to try its effects.
[72.] Their maxim was
“Nihil sciri siquis putat id quoque nescit,