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xCONTENTSLECTUREXVIITHE FIRST RESURRECTION OF CULTURED HEATHENISM INTHE NEOPYTHAGOREAN SCHOOLPAGEExtinction of the Pythagorean School in the time of Ciceroand of Seneca ........ ii IThree positions of Greek philosophy in reference to religion 114The society in which it started possessed a worship consistingof Prayer, Sacrifice, Oracles, and Mysteries . * 115How Philosophy had dealt with these118Its result in Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics a negation . 120Continuing belief of the mass in the polytheistic worship . 122Rise of a believing movement in Philosophy . . -123Philo ; his connection with it * 123Date and circumstances of his life ..... 124He attempts to marry the Greek science with the Hebrewrevelation . . . . . . fc 127The position which he gives to these two in regard to eachotherWhat Philo had in common with Greek philosophy, whathe borrowed from it, what he contributed to it . . 129The principle of revelation and the principle of holiness . 130His conception of God derm < I from Scripture and Tradi-LlOU"*""*"»*Metaphysical attributesAttributes relative to man ......132Human holiness a transcript of the divine . . . -133Philo's doctrine of human weakness and divine grace . 134Subordination of human sciences to theology . . 135By which self-knowledge being gained leads us through asense of our weakness to GodThe opposition of these principles to the previous course ofGreek philosophy down to Seneca . . . . 137Plutarch ; time and circumstances of his life . . .141First remaining representative of the NeopytbagoreanSCIlOOl "*».-..»..», 142His theodicea; the Supreme God . . . . . 142Constructor, not Creator of the world . . . .143The visible gods and the demonsTriple Providence128132145