{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">A great crowd of this description rushes on my mind, introducing, as it\r\nwere, a terrifying apparition of strange demons, speaking of fabulous\r\nand monstrous shapes, in old wives’ talk. Far from enjoining men to\r\nlisten to such tales are we, who avoid the practice of soothing our\r\ncrying children, as the saying is, by telling them fabulous stories,\r\nbeing afraid of fostering in their minds the impiety professed by\r\nthose who, though wise in their own conceit, have no more knowledge\r\nof the truth than infants. For why (in the name of truth!) do you\r\nmake those who believe you subject to ruin and corruption, dire and\r\nirretrievable? Why, I beseech you, fill up life with idolatrous images,\r\nby feigning the winds, or the air, or fire, or earth, or stones, or\r\nstocks, or steel, or this universe, to be gods; and, prating loftily\r\nof the heavenly bodies in this much vaunted science of astrology, not\r\nastronomy, to those men who have truly wandered, talk of the wandering\r\nstars as gods? It is the Lord of the spirits, the Lord of the fire, the\r\nMaker of the universe, Him who lighted up the sun, that I long for. I\r\nseek after God, not the works of God. “Whom shall I take as a helper in\r\nmy inquiry? We do not, if you have no objection, wholly disown Plato.\r\nHow, then, is God to be searched out, O Plato? “For both to find the\r\nFather and Maker of this universe is a work of difficulty; and having\r\nfound Him, to declare Him fully, is impossible.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_65\" id=\"FNanchor_65\">[65]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER VI. BY DIVINE INSPIRATION PHILOSOPHERS SOMETIMES HIT ON THE TRUTH."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_65","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-164"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3681042156ff4aa2b898c1e5947623137af248fa7e23e24b958e9cd64d79509d","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_65","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":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_65","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_65\" id=\"Footnote_65\">[65]</a> <i>Timæus.</i></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_65","text_sha256":"60002fccc1b9428da858596611e63ddcceaa0a4c0fa993711a8eabaf7eed7a2a","verified":false,"work_id":null}