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The Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics

Note 142 — Chapter XIII · THE RELATION OF THE STOIC PHILOSOPHY TO RELIGION.

Oswald J. (Oswald Joseph) Reichel translation

Amongst such external helps, the Stoic in Cic. Divin. i. 50, 114; 36, 79, enumerates the impression derived from music, natural scenery, mountains, woods, rivers, seas and vapours arising from the earth. But it is difficult to understand how, on Stoic principles, he can have attached value to oracles (ibid. 18, 34) by lot, or justified them otherwise than in the way mentioned on p. 375, 4. ↑

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