Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Chapter 21

SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS

1. Attributed to Empedocles by Hippolytus, in Refutation of All Heresies, I, iii, 2, in Jonathan Barnes, editor, Early Greek Philosophy (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1987), p. 196.

Epilogue

1. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Volume I of Basic Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas, translated by Father Laurence Shapcote, edited and translation revised by Anton C. Pegis (New York: Random House, 1945), Part I, VIII, “The Divine Government,” Question 103, Article 2, p. 952.

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