CONTENTS.
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| Introductory Notice by the Translator, | 17 | ||
| BOOK I. | |||
| CHAP. | |||
| Contents, | 25 | ||
| The Proœmium—Motives for undertaking the Refutation—Exposure of the ancient Mysteries—Plan of the Work—Completeness of the Refutation—Value of the Treatise to future Ages. | 26 | ||
| 1. | Thales—his Physics and Theology—Founder of Greek Astronomy, | 30 | |
| 2. | Pythagoras—his Cosmogony—Rules of his Sect—Discoverer of Physiognomy—his Philosophy of Numbers—his System of the Transmigration of Souls—Zaratas on Demons—why Pythagoras forbade the eating of Beans—the Mode of Living adopted by his Disciples, | 31 | |
| 3. | Empedocles—his Twofold Cause—Tenet of Transmigration, | 36 | |
| 4. | Heraclitus—his Universal Dogmatism—his Theory of Flux—other Systems, | 36 | |
| 5. | Anaximander—his Theory of the Infinite—his Astronomic Opinions—his Physics, | 37 | |
| 6. | Anaximenes—his System of "an Infinite Air"—his Views of Astronomy and Natural Phenomena, | 39 | |
| 7. | Anaxagoras—his Theory of Mind—recognises an Efficient Cause—his Cosmogony and Astronomy, | 40 | |
| 8. | Archelaus—System akin to that of Anaxagoras—his Origin of the Earth and of Animals—other Systems, | 43 | |
| 9. | Parmenides—his Theory of "Unity"—his Eschatology, | 44 | |
| 10. | Leucippus—his Atomic Theory, | 45 | |
| 11. | Democritus—his Duality of Principles—his Cosmogony, | 45 | |
| 12. | Xenophanes—his Scepticism—his Notions of God and Nature—believes in a Flood, | 46 | |
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