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s_, trans. John Veitch (Chicago, 1908), p. 143. The quotations from the letters which follow occur in Alexandre Koyre's very helpful book, _From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe_ (Baltimore, 1957), pp. 114, 122-123, but the complete and original texts can be consulted in Descartes, _Correspondance avec Arnaud et Morus_, ed. G. Lewis (Paris, 1953).] [Footnote 5: This passage occurs at the beginning of "The Easie, True, and Genuine Notion, And consistent Explication Of the Nature of a Spirit," a free translation of _Enchiridion Metaphysicum_, I. 27-28, by John Collins which he included in Joseph Glanvil's _Saducismus Triumphatus_ (London, 1681). I quote from the text as given in _Philosophical Writings of Henry More_, ed. F. I. MacKinnon (New York, 1925), p. 183.] [Footnote 6: Cf. _Enchiridion Metaphysicum_, VIII. 8, trans. Mary Whiton Calkins and included in John Tull Baker, _An Historical and Critical Examination of English Space and Time Theories_ . . . (Bronxville, N.Y., 1930), p. 12. For the original, cf. _Opera Omnia_, II. 1, p. 167.] [Footnote 7: "_Infinitum_ igitur hoc _Extensum_ a Materia distinctum," _Enchiridion Metaphysicum_, VIII. 9, in _Opera Omnia, loc. cit._ Quoted by MacKinnon, p. 262.] [Footnote 8: This and the following reference appear in _An Explanation of the grand Mystery of Godliness_ (London, 1660), "To the Reader," pp. vi and v.] [Footnote 9: _Ibid._, II. xi. 5 (p. 52).] BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The text of this edition is reproduced from a copy in the Henry E. Huntington Library. Democritus Platonissans, Or, _AN ESSAY_ Upon The INFINITY OF WORLDS Out Of PLATONICK PRINCIPLES. Hereunto is annexed CUPIDS CONFLICT together with THE PHILOSOPHERS DEVOTION: And a Particular Interpretation appertaining to the three last books of the _Song of the Soul_. By _H. More_ Master of Arts, and Fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge. +Agathos en to pan tode ho sunistas, agathoi de oudeis peri oudenos oudepote enginetai phthonos. Toutou d' ektos on panta hoti malista eboulethe genesthai paraplesia hautoi.+ Plat. _Pythagoras Terram Planetam quendam esse censuit qui circa solem in centro mundi defixum convertere
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