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530 THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT eos qui in stellis vagis nominantur untim qui ex omnibus sideribus quas infixa caelo sunt ex dispersis quasi membris simplex sit putandus deus septimum Solem adjungit octavamque Lunam qui quo sensu beati esse possint intelligi non potest Ex eadem Platonis schola Ponticus Heraelides puerilibus fabulis refersit libros et turn mundum turn mentem divinam esse putat errantibus etiam stellis divinitatem tribuit sensuque deum privat et ejus formam mutabilem esse vult eodemque in libro rursus terram et caelum refert in deos Nec vero Tlieophrasti incon- stantia ferenda est modo enim menti divinum tribuit principa- turn modo caelo turn autem signis siderihusque cselestibus Nec audiendus ejus auditor Strato is qui physicus appellatur qui omnem vim divinam in natura sitam esse censet quse caussas gignendi augendi minuend habeat sed careat omni sensu et figura Translate into Latin -I Should spirit of superior rank who is stranger to human nature accidentally alight upon the earth and take survey of its inhabitants what would his notions of us be Would not he think that we were species of beings made for quite different ends and purposes than what we really are Must not he im- agine that we are placed in this world to get riches and honours Would not he think that it was our duty to toil after wealth and station and title Nay would not be believe we were forbidden poverty by threats of eternal punishment and enjoined to pursue our pleasures under pain of damnation He would certainly imagine that we were influenced by scheme of duties quite opposite to those which are indeed prescribed to us And truly according to such an imagination he must conclude that we are species of the most obedient creatures in the universe that we are constant to our duty and that we keep steady eye on the end for which we were sent hither II -ScbrrU Translate Kings ii 11-31 parsing the harder forms