book 7: 22-28# Thoughts - 思考者
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CHAP. 23.--CONCERNING THE EARTH, WHICH VARRO AFFIRMS TO BE A
GODDESS, BECAUSE THAT SOUL OF
THE WORLD WHICH HE THINKS TO BE GOD PERVADES ALSO THIS
LOWEST PART OF HIS BODY, AND IMPARTS
TO IT A DIVINE FORCE.
Surely the earth, which we see full of its own living
creatures, is one; but for all that, it is but a mighty mass
among the elements and the lowest
part of the world. Why, then, would they have it to be a
goddess? Is it because it is fruitful? Why, then, are not
men rather held to be gods, who
GODDESS, BECAUSE THAT SOUL OF
THE WORLD WHICH HE THINKS TO BE GOD PERVADES ALSO THIS
LOWEST PART OF HIS BODY, AND IMPARTS
TO IT A DIVINE FORCE.
Surely the earth, which we see full of its own living
creatures, is one; but for all that, it is but a mighty mass
among the elements and the lowest
part of the world. Why, then, would they have it to be a
goddess? Is it because it is fruitful? Why, then, are not
men rather held to be gods, who