{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And since he asserts that, “when ants die, the survivors set\r\napart a special place [for their interment], and that their ancestral\r\nsepulchres such a place is,” we have to answer, that the greater\r\nthe laudations which he heaps upon irrational animals, so much\r\nthe more does he magnify (although against his will) the work\r\nof that reason which arranged all things in order, and points\r\nout the skill<a id=\"r793\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f793\"><sup>[793]</sup></a> which exists among men, and which is capable\r\nof adorning by its reason even the gifts which are bestowed by\r\nnature on the irrational creation. But why do I say “irrational,”\r\nsince Celsus is of opinion that these animals, which, agreeably\r\nto the common ideas of all men, are termed irrational, are not\r\nreally so? Nor does <i>he</i> regard the ants as devoid of reason,\r\nwho professed to speak of “universal nature,” and who boasted\r\nof his truthfulness in the inscription of his book. For, speaking\r\nof the ants conversing with one another, he uses the following\r\nlanguage: “And when they meet one another they\r\nenter into conversation, for which reason they never mistake\r\ntheir way; consequently they possess a full endowment of\r\nreason, and some common ideas on certain general subjects, and\r\na voice by which they express themselves regarding accidental\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_251\">251</span>things.”<a id=\"r794\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f794\"><sup>[794]</sup></a> Now conversation between one man and another is\r\ncarried on by means of a voice, which gives expression to the\r\nmeaning intended, and which also gives utterances concerning\r\nwhat are called “accidental things;” but to say that this was\r\nthe case with ants would be a most ridiculous assertion.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter LXXXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-307"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"836c523ea228e9960f577a6d378c190b976077904bf52179b911f2ed3a475b78","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f793","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 1872 English edition; listed translators died 1889 and 1872. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f793","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f793\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r793\">793</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἐντρέχειαν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f793","text_sha256":"848fea2d0e35b456732f5b88d23e4efbf62bccbda4abd5754a60c015af75a6f7","verified":false,"work_id":null}