The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

fraxinus

Bright yellow ash leaves against a mottled background of dark oak and blue sky.

I have noticed a passage in Euripides in which Jupiter is invoked without actually knowing what he is. It is admitted that he governs all things justly by occult methods, but he is found extremely difficult to know, and one cannot tell if he is the necessity of nature or human intelligence. What a faith! A Spinozist would just about agree to this.

—Pierre Bayle (Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections, s.v. Jupiter, §N, trans. Richard H. Popkin, p. 119)


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