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(L.) p. 272. It appears however that scriptural argu- 

 ments were found on the other side. St. Jerome says 3 , 

 speaking of the two cherubims with four faces, seen by 

 the prophet, and the interpretation of the vision ; " Alii 

 vero qui philosophorum stultam sequunter sapientiam, duo 

 hemispheria in duobus templi cherubim, nos et antipodes, 

 quasi supinos et cadentes homines suspicantur. 11 



(M.) p. 305. The reader will find an interesting view 

 of the School of Alexandria, in M. Barthelemy Saint- 

 Hilaire's Rapport on the Memoires sent to the Academy 

 of Moral and Political Sciences at Paris, in consequence 

 of its having, in 1841, proposed this as the subject of 

 a prize, which was awarded in 1 844. M. Saint-Hilaire 

 has prefixed to this Rapport a dissertation on the Mys- 

 ticism of that school. He, however, uses the term 

 Mysticism in a wider sense than my purpose, which re- 

 garded mainly the bearing of the doctrines of this school 

 upon the progress of the Inductive Sciences, led me to 

 do. Although he finds much to admire in the Alexan- 

 drian philosophy, he declares that they were incapable 

 of treating scientific questions. The extent to which this 

 is true is well illustrated by the extract which he gives 

 from Plotinus, on the question, "Why objects appear 

 smaller in proportion as they are more distant. 11 Plo- 

 tinus denies that the reason of this is that the angles 

 of vision become smaller. His reason for this denial is 

 curious enough. If it were so, he says, how could the 

 heaven appear smaller than it is, since it occupies the 

 whole of the visual angle? 



(N.) p. 361. In the Philosophy of the Inductive 

 Sciences, I have given an account at considerable length 



3 Comm. in Ezech., i. 6. 



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