An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson.
- Q6286581
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![lation of 341 generations, or 11,340 years. From Bacchus, he fays, to the reign of Amafis they reckon’d no lefs than 15,00c years; and fay’d they knew thefe things with certainty, be- caufe they had allways computeéd the years, and kept an exact account of time.* Ari- ftotle calls them the moft ancient of all mor- tals. | The Athenians gave out that they were pro- duce’d at the fame time with the fun and asfume’d to themielves the honorable name of AdtoyPovec, - which word fignifys perfons produce’d out of the fame foil that they inhabit: for it was an ‘old opinion, and allmoft every where receive’d among the vulgar, that, in the begining of the world, men, like plants, were by fome ftrange prolifick virtue produce’d out of the fertile womb of our common mother, Earth; and there- for, the ancients generally call’d themfelves Twyeveig, fons of the earth, as Hefychius in- forms us: alludeing to the fame original, the Athenians fometimes ftile’d themfelves Téz]inyes, * Thi. Plato, in Critias, p- 1100, reckons the amount to be gooo years, from what time a war was reported to have ex- ifted between all thofe who inhabited sched and about the columns of Hercules. + Of a republick, B. 7, C. 10.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088494_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
