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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>This controversy some philosophers have seen no other\r\napproved means of solving than by introducing cycles of time,\r\nin which there should be a constant renewal and repetition of\r\nthe order of nature;<a id=\"FNanchor_538_538\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_538_538\">[538]</a> and they have therefore asserted that\r\nthese cycles will ceaselessly recur, one passing away and another\r\ncoming, though they are not agreed as to whether one permanent\r\nworld shall pass through all these cycles, or whether\r\nthe world shall at fixed intervals die out, and be renewed so\r\nas to exhibit a recurrence of the same phenomena—the things\r\nwhich have been, and those which are to be, coinciding. And\r\nfrom this fantastic vicissitude they exempt not even the immortal\r\nsoul that has attained wisdom, consigning it to a ceaseless\r\ntransmigration between delusive blessedness and real\r\nmisery. For how can that be truly called blessed which has\r\nno assurance of being so eternally, and is either in ignorance\r\nof the truth, and blind to the misery that is approaching, or,\r\nknowing it, is in misery and fear? Or if it passes to bliss,\r\nand leaves miseries for ever, then there happens in time a\r\nnew thing which time shall not end. Why not, then, the\r\nworld also? Why may not man, too, be a similar thing?\r\nSo that, by following the straight path of sound doctrine, we<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_499\">[Pg 499]</a></span>\r\nescape, I know not what circuitous paths, discovered by deceiving\r\nand deceived sages.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TWELFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-858"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5b55f420f4fc0256c79af0b093a7bc6bec49b376cbf1985c7a57287d662bae47","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. Smith (Books V-VIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_538_538","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_538_538","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_538_538\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_538_538\"><span class=\"label\">[538]</span></a> Antoninus says (ii. 14), \"All things from eternity are of like forms, and\r\ncome round in a circle.\" Cf. also ix. 28, and the references to more ancient\r\nphilosophical writers in Gataker's notes on these passages.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_538_538","text_sha256":"a2bce9257c54d0fc6ec1c4bd58179bbc867a69938f435f6c1f17a27b9c286fd5","verified":false,"work_id":null}references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_538_538