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iii.iii.i.i
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.iii.iii.i.ii
Thales; His Physics and Theology; Founder of Greek Astronomy.iii.iii.i.iii
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.iii.iii.i.iv
Empedocles; His Twofold Cause; Tenet of Transmigration.iii.iii.i.v
Heraclitus; His Universal Dogmatism; His Theory of Flux; Other Systems.iii.iii.i.vi
Anaximander; His Theory of the Infinite; His Astronomic Opinions; His Physics.iii.iii.i.vii
Anaximenes; His System of “An Infinite Air;” His Views of Astronomy and Natural Phenomena.iii.iii.i.viii
Anaxagoras; His Theory of Mind; Recognises an Efficient Cause; His Cosmogony and Astronomy.iii.iii.i.ix
Archelaus; System Akin to that of Anaxagoras; His Origin of the Earth and of Animals; Other Systems.iii.iii.i.x
Parmenides; His Theory of “Unity;” His Eschatology.iii.iii.i.xi
Leucippus; His Atomic Theory.iii.iii.i.xii
Democritus; His Duality of Principles; His Cosmogony.iii.iii.i.xiii
Xenophanes; His Scepticism; His Notions of God and Nature; Believes in a Flood.iii.iii.i.xiv
Ecphantus; His Scepticism; Tenet of Infinity.iii.iii.i.xv
Hippo; His Duality of Principles; His Psychology.iii.iii.i.xvi
Socrates; His Philosophy Reproduced by Plato.iii.iii.i.xvii
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 Free-Will Question.iii.iii.i.xviii
Aristotle; Duality of Principles; His Categories; His Psychology; His Ethical Doctrines; Origin of the Epithet “Peripatetic.”iii.iii.i.xix
The Stoics; Their Superiority in Logic; Fatalists; Their Doctrine of Conflagrations.iii.iii.i.xx
Epicurus; Adopts the Democritic Atomism; Denial of Divine Providence; The Principle of His Ethical System.iii.iii.i.xxi
The Academics; Difference of Opinion Among Them.iii.iii.i.xxii
The Brachmans; Their Mode of Life; Ideas of Deity; Different Sorts Of; Their Ethical Notions.iii.iii.i.xxiii
The Druids; Progenitors of Their System.iii.iii.i.xxiv
Hesiod; The Nine Muses; The Hesiodic Cosmogony; The Ancient Speculators, Materialists; Derivative Character of the Heresies from Heathen Philosophy.iii.iii.i.xxv