The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
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1755
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    f God, &c*: This notion of the crea¬ tion Ariftotle tells us, was agreeable to the concurrent voice of all antiquity; € All,' fays he, c affert the creation of c the world; but they differ in this, that * fome will have the world fufceptible ‘ of dilfolution, which others deny •f.* Gn this occafion Ariftotle names Em¬ pedocles and Heraclitus, but, which is fomewhat remarkable, never mentions Thales. The opinion itfelf is oppofed by the Stagy rite 3 and this oppofition he was forced to maintain, or he muft have given up the eternity of the world, which he very juftly aflerts to be inconftftent with any idea of its creation. But we will difmifs the antients from the bar, and fee how his lordfhip will fupport his arraignment of the moderns. The charge againft them is, that they have holden certain ideas, or incorporeal ef- * Diog. Laert. lib. I. fed. 35. where I fubmit to the learned reader the conftruftion he will obferve I have given to the different import of thofe term?9 dysvn.Tw and noiypa; the firft of which may be confi- dered as a qualified, the latter as an abfolute caafe. f Ariftot. De ccelo, lib. |:,cap. 10. fences