HEIDEL. — lisp! 4>vcr€ws. 133 



Screws tcrropta was set in sharp contrast 206 to the ethical and method- 

 ological studies of Socrates which resulted in the logic and metaphysics 

 of Plato and Aristotle. 



It is not surprising that science, sprung from the bosom of religion, 

 and fostered by a spirit of reverence for truth in an age when the 

 crumbling ruins of ancient beliefs testified to a loss of respect for the 

 traditional gods, should have become in a measure itself a religion. 

 Attention was called above to the fact that the philosophical system 

 became in time invested with sanctity and was handed down as a tepos 

 Xoyos. In the Greek mysteries, even in the fifth century, and possibly 

 in the sixth, liroindo., the final stage of initiation, included a vision of 

 that most divine spectacle, the stellar universe. In Orphic and Py- 

 thagorean conventicles there was undoubtedly some consideration of 

 its meaning, though one cannot say how much. Much nonsense is 

 reported of the secrets of the Pythagoreans, but it probably had some 

 basis in fact. The religion of the time tended more and more to be- 

 come a matter of the individual, though the public forms were ob- 

 served. Science, competing with religion and in educated circles to a 

 considerable extent supplanting it, naturally appropriated its forms. 

 The " Law " of Hippocrates 207 ends thus : " Things holy are revealed 

 to holy men ; to the profane it is forbidden, before they are initiated 

 into the Mysteries of science." We are familiar with the beatitude 

 pronounced by the poets upon those who were initiated in the Myste- 

 ries of Eleusis, 208 for they should see the gods and dwell with them, 

 released from the distressing cycle of birth and death. Not unlike it is 

 the inspired utterance of Euripides 209 in praise of the philosopher of 

 nature : " Blessed is he who hath got knowledge of science, bent 

 neither on harm to his neighbors nor on ways of injustice ; but, con- 

 templating the ageless order of undying nature, knoweth what it 

 is and how. To such men there never cleaves desire for deeds of 

 shame." 



Wesleyan University, 

 MlDDLETOWN, Conn., July 10, 1909. 



the Lueretian phrases in rerun nitura and in rebus ; thus, Phacdo 103 B otire r6 if 

 tj/juv ovre to iv rfj (pvaei, and Farm. 132 D to. /xev eidy raura wawep irapadeiyfiara 

 iardvai iv t?5 (pvati. 



2< > 6 Arist., Met. 987 b 1 foil. Cp. n. 7, above. 



207 Hippocrates, 4, 642 Littre. Cp. also the "0 P kos (4, 62S foil. Littre). . 



208 Cp. especially Pindar, fr. 114 (Bergk) S\/3tos octtls ISuv \ Kelv ela' virb x^ ov " 

 ol8e ^eu f3lou reXevrav, | oldev 8e 5io<t5otov apxav. 



209 Fr. 910. The text is quoted above, n. 185. 



