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CHAPTER III
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The investigation1 into the two great problems of the origin of society and the philosophy of history occupies such an important position in the evolution of Greek thought that, to obtain any clear view of the workings of the critical spirit, it will be necessary to trace at some length their rise and scientific development as evinced not merely in the works of historians proper, but also in the philosophical4 treatises5 of Plato and Aristotle. The important position which these two great thinkers occupy in the progress of historical criticism can hardly be over-estimated. I do not mean merely as regards their treatment of the Greek Bible, and Plato’s endeavours to purge7 sacred history of its immorality9 by the application of ethical10 canons at the time when Aristotle was beginning to undermine the basis of miracles by his scientific conception of law, but with reference to these two wider questions of the rise of civil institutions and the philosophy of history.
And first, as regards the current theories of the primitive11 condition of society, there was a wide divergence12 of opinion in Hellenic society, just as there is now. For while the majority of the orthodox public, of whom Hesiod may be taken as the representative, looked back, as a great many of our own day still do, to a fabulous13 age of innocent happiness, a bell’ età dell’ auro, where sin and death were unknown and men and women were like Gods, the foremost men of intellect such as Aristotle and Plato, ?schylus and many of the other poets [29] saw in primitive man ‘a few small sparks of humanity preserved on the tops of mountains after some deluge,’ ‘without an idea of cities, governments or legislation,’ ‘living the lives of wild beasts in sunless caves,’ ‘their only law being the survival of the fittest.’
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speculation
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savage
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gregarious
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philology
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n.语言学;语文学 | |
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mythology
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n.神话,神话学,神话集 | |
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metaphors
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隐喻( metaphor的名词复数 ) | |
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thigh
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n.大腿;股骨 | |
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linguistic
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adj.语言的,语言学的 | |
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sham
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purely
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travail
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n.阵痛;努力 | |
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adoration
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n.神圣的遗物,遗迹,纪念物 | |
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(使)混合( merge的过去式和过去分词 ); 相融; 融入; 渐渐消失在某物中 | |
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处女,童男( virgin的名词复数 ); 童贞玛利亚(耶稣之母) | |
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