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Heelis family cookbook, 1850s
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Cicero de natura [Deorum?] Although many things in philosophy have been by no means as yet satisfactorily explained, yet the question about the nature of the Gods is (as you are well aware) very difficult and very obscure: which is a very fine thing to bring us acquainted with our minds, and necessary to qualify superstition. About which the opinions of the most learned men are so various and contradictory, that it ought to furnish a strong proof, that the cause, i.e. the foundation of philosophy, is knowledge: & that the academies have wisely refused their assent to uncertainties.
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Cicero de natura [Deorum?] Although many things in philosophy have been by no means as yet satisfactorily explained, yet the question about the nature of the Gods is (as you are well aware) very difficult and very obscure: which is a very fine thing to bring us acquainted with our minds, and necessary to qualify superstition. About which the opinions of the most learned men are so various and contradictory, that it ought to furnish a strong proof, that the cause, i.e. the foundation of philosophy, is knowledge: & that the academies have wisely refused their assent to uncertainties.
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