376 HENRY KIRKE WHITE's REMAINS. 



quo omnia quce nascuntur anhnalla vitam ccqnunt* — 

 an intelligence moving upon and diffused over all the 

 parts of the universe and all nature, from which all ani- 

 mals derive their existence. As for the swarm of gods 

 worshipped both in Egypt and Greece, it is evident they 

 were only esteemed as inferior deities. In the time of 

 St Paul there was a temple at Athens inscribed to the 

 unknown God : and Hesiod makes them younger than the 

 earth and heaven. 



E| oc^x>^g ovg Vctic/. x.ui Ov^xvog sv^vg stiktou 

 Oi T £x, rau eysvouro fiioi ourviQ^cg idopj. 



Theog. 



If Pythagoras and the other philosophers who suc- 

 ceeded him paid honour to these gods, they either did it 

 through fear of encountering ancient prejudices, or they 

 reconciled it by recurring to the D^monology of their 

 masters, the Chaldeans, who maintained the agency o£ 

 good and bad demons, who presided over different things, 

 and were distinguished into the powers of light and dark- 

 ness, heat and cold. It is remarkable, too, that amongst 

 all these people, Avhether Egyptians or Chaldeans, Greeks 

 or Eoraans, as well as every other nation under the sun, 

 sacrifices w^ere made to the gods, in order to render them 

 propitious to their wishes, or to expiate their offences — 

 a fact which proves that the conviction of the interference 

 of the Deity in human affairs is universal : and what is 

 much more important, that this custom is primitive, and 

 derived from the first inhabitants of the world. 

 * * * * 



MELANCHOLY HOURS.— No. XII. 



While the seat of empire was yet at Byzantium, and 

 that city was the centre, not only of dominion, but of 

 learning and politeness, a certain hermit had fixed his re- 



* Lactantius Div. Inst. lib. cap. 5, etiam, Minucius Feliy. « Pytha- 

 gorse Dens est animus per universam venim natnram commeans ataue 

 intcntiis ex quo etiam auinialium omnium vita cajpiatur." 



