{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Let us, then, omit the conjectures of men who know not\r\nwhat they say, when they speak of the nature and origin of\r\nthe human race. For some hold the same opinion regarding\r\nmen that they hold regarding the world itself, that they have\r\nalways been. Thus Apuleius says when he is describing our\r\nrace, \"Individually they are mortal, but collectively, and as\r\na race, they are immortal.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_531_531\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_531_531\">[531]</a> And when they are asked, how,\r\nif the human race has always been, they vindicate the truth\r\nof their history, which narrates who were the inventors, and\r\nwhat they invented, and who first instituted the liberal studies\r\nand the other arts, and who first inhabited this or that region,\r\nand this or that island? they reply<a id=\"FNanchor_532_532\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_532_532\">[532]</a> that most, if not all\r\nlands, were so desolated at intervals by fire and flood, that\r\nmen were greatly reduced in numbers, and from these, again,\r\nthe population was restored to its former numbers, and that\r\nthus there was at intervals a new beginning made, and though\r\nthose things which had been interrupted and checked by the\r\nsevere devastations were only renewed, yet they seemed to be\r\noriginated then, but that man could not exist at all save as\r\nproduced by man. But they say what they think, not what\r\nthey know.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TWELFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-851"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"dbbe7069305936cdcfb2d5df41032fed8f4bf44044b2c260240fe644e434e1bf","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_532_532","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_532_532","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_532_532\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_532_532\"><span class=\"label\">[532]</span></a> Augustine no doubt refers to the interesting account given by Critias, near\r\nthe beginning of the <i>Timæus</i>, of the conversation of Solon with the Egyptian\r\npriests.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_532_532","text_sha256":"88517c0c27582495d9b2e3dce078a5c716b36e2ffe8fcb16a4d5ae8cba57cacc","verified":false,"work_id":null}