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I could not; replied my father and for the same reasons: for of these Loves, according to Ficinus's comment upon Velasius, the one is rational the other is natural the first ancient without mother where Venus had nothing to do: the second, begotten of Jupiter and Dione Pray, brother, quoth my uncle Toby, what has a man who believes in God to do with this?
It is true that there was an unmistakable decay of Greek literary studies in France from the beginning of the eighteenth century, and Rousseau seems to have read Plato only through Ficinus's translation. But his example and its influence, along with that of Mably and others, warrant the historian in saying that at no time did Greek ideas more keenly preoccupy opinion than during this century.
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