480 THE OCTAV1US OF opinion of thisoriginalphilosopherabsolutelyagrees with ours. Afterwards Anaximenes, and then Diogenes of Apol- lonia,decide that the air,infiniteand unmeasured, isGod. The agreement of these alsoas to the Divinityislike ours. But thedescriptionof Anaxagoras alsois,thatGod issaidto be the motion of an infinitemind ; and the God of Pytha goras is the soulpassingto and fro and intent,throughout the universalnatureof things,from whom alsothe lifeof all animals is received. It is a known fact,that Xenophanes deliveredthatGod was allinfinitywith a mind ; and Antis- thenes,thatthereare many gods of the people,but that one God of Nature was thechiefof all;thatXeuxippus1 acknow ledged as God a naturalanimal force,whereby allthings are governed. What saysDemocritus? Although the firstdis coverer of atoms, does not he especiallyspeak of nature, which isthebasisof forms,and intelligence,as God ? Strato alsohimself saysthat God is nature. Moreover, Epicurus, the man who feignseitherotiosegods or none at all,still placesabove all,Nature. Aristotlevaries,but nevertheless assignsa unityof power : forat one time he saysthatMind, at anotherthe World, isGod ; at anothertime he setsGod above theworld.2Heraclidesof Pontus alsoascribes,although in variousways, a divinemind to God. Theophrastus,and Zeno, and Chrysippus,and Cleanthesare indeed themselves of many forms of opinion; but they are allbrought back to the one factof the unityof providence. For Cleanthes discoursedof God as of a mind, now of a soul,now of air, but for the most part of reason. Zeno, his master, will have the law of nature and of God, and sometimesthe air, and sometimes reason,to be the beginning of all things. Moreover, by interpretingJuno to be the air,Jupiter the heaven, Neptune the sea,Vulcan to be fire,and in like manner by showing the othergods of the common peopleto 1 Otherwise," Speusippus." 2 The MS.hereinserts," Aristolesof Pontusvaries,atonetimeattri butingthesupremacytotheworld,atanothertothedivinemind." Some thinkthatthisisan interpolation,otherstransferthewordstoTheo phrastusbelow.