The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.

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Title: The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.
Author: Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678.
Publication: London :: Printed for Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring :; 1656.
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Subject terms: Philosophy, Ancient -- Early works to 1800.; Philosophy -- History.
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Sect. 1. That the Air is the principle of all things.

HE held that the Air is the principle of the Universe,* 1.1 of which all things are ingendred, and into which they resolve; Our soules by which we live are air, so spirit and air contain in being all the world; for spirit and air are two names signifying one thing.

That* 1.2 the air is God, begotten, immense, infinite, ever in motion; * 1.3 but that those things which arise out of it are finite. First is be∣gotten, earth, water, fire, then of these all things. That the air is God understands of the faculties penetrating through the Elements or bodies.

Notes

* 1.1

Plut de plac. Iustin Mar∣tyr. paraen. 1. 3. phil.

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* 1.2

Cic. de nat. deor. 1.

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* 1.3

Cic. ••cad. quaest. 4.

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