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CONTENTS.
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| 13. | Ecphantus—his Scepticism—Tenet of Infinity, | 47 | |
| 14. | Hippo—his Duality of Principles—his Psychology, | 48 | |
| 15. | Socrates—his Philosophy reproduced by Plato, | 48 | |
| 16. | Plato—Threefold Classification of Principles—his Idea of God—different Opinions regarding his Theology and Psychology—his Eschatology and System of Metempsychosis—his Ethical Doctrines—Notions on the Freewill Question, | 49 | |
| 17. | Aristotle—Duality of Principles—his Categories—his Psychology—his Ethical Doctrines—Origin of the Epithet "Peripatetic," | 54 | |
| 18. | The Stoics—their Superiority in Logic— Fatalists—their Doctrine of Conflagrations, | 55 | |
| 19. | Epicurus—adopts the Democritic Atomism—Denial of Divine Providence—the Principle of his Ethical System, | 57 | |
| 20. | The Academics—Difference of Opinion among them, | 58 | |
| 21. | The Brachmans—their Mode of Life—Ideas of Deity—different Sorts of—their Ethical Notions, | 59 | |
| 22. | The Druids—Progenitors of their System, | 61 | |
| 23. | Hesiod—the Nine Muses—the Hesiodic Cosmogony—the Ancient Speculators, Materialists—derivative Character of the Heresies from Heathen Philosophy, | 61 | |
| [BOOKS II. AND III. AWANTING.] | |||
| BOOK IV. | |||
| 1. | System of the Astrologers—Sidereal Influence—Configuration of the Stars, | 64 | |
| 2. | Doctrines concerning Æons—the Chaldæan Astrology Heresy derivable from it, | 65 | |
| 3. | The Horoscope the Foundation of Astrology—Indiscoverability of the Horoscope—therefore the Futility of the Chaldæan Art, | 66 | |
| 4. | Impossibility of fixing the Horoscope—Failure of an Attempt to do this at the Period of Birth, | 68 | |
| 5. | Another Method of fixing the Horoscope at Birth—equally futile—Use of the Clepsydra in Astrology—the Predictions of the Chaldæans not verified, | 70 | |
| 6. | Zodiacal Influence—Origin of Sidereal Names, | 72 | |
| 7. | Practical Absurdity of the Chaldaic Art—Development of the Art, | 73 | |
