{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Whether this opinion of Plato's about the stars is true or\r\nnot, is another question. For we cannot at once grant to him\r\nthat these luminous bodies or globes, which by day and night\r\nshine on the earth with the light of their bodily substance,\r\nhave also intellectual and blessed souls which animate each\r\nits own body, as he confidently affirms of the universe itself,\r\nas if it were one huge animal, in which all other animals were\r\ncontained.<a id=\"FNanchor_595_595\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_595_595\">[595]</a> But this, as I said, is another question, which we<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_538\">[Pg 538]</a></span>\r\nhave not undertaken to discuss at present. This much only\r\nI deemed right to bring forward, in opposition to those who so\r\npride themselves on being, or on being called Platonists, that\r\nthey blush to be Christians, and who cannot brook to be called\r\nby a name which the common people also bear, lest they\r\nvulgarize the philosophers' coterie, which is proud in proportion\r\nto its exclusiveness. These men, seeking a weak point in the\r\nChristian doctrine, select for attack the eternity of the body,\r\nas if it were a contradiction to contend for the blessedness of\r\nthe soul, and to wish it to be always resident in the body,\r\nbound, as it were, in a lamentable chain; and this although\r\nPlato, their own founder and master, affirms that it was granted\r\nby the Supreme as a boon to the gods He had made, that\r\nthey should not die, that is, should not be separated from the\r\nbodies with which He had connected them.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-927"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c19d8b3f3deb960d6ef29c8711909765c72a08cd7ffc6129191ce3b6584bbea5","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_595_595","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_595_595","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_595_595\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_595_595\"><span class=\"label\">[595]</span></a> Plato, in the <i>Timæus</i>, represents the Demiurgus as constructing the <i>kosmos</i>\r\nor universe to be a complete representation of the idea of animal. He planted\r\nin its centre a soul, spreading outwards so as to pervade the whole body of the\r\n<i>kosmos</i>; and then he introduced into it those various species of animals which\r\nwere contained in the idea of animal. Among these animals stand first the\r\ncelestial, the gods embodied in the stars; and of these the oldest is the earth, set\r\nin the centre of all, close packed round the great axis which traverses the centre\r\nof the <i>kosmos</i>.—See the <i>Timæus</i> and Grote's <i>Plato</i>, iii. 250 et seq.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_595_595","text_sha256":"f5b5b949c140ada86cdf3505cef2b9933584a69e910fa0763782d4160ff0f5f4","verified":false,"work_id":null}