To Myself I Am Only A Child

If The Ancient Churches, In Debating And Deciding The Greatest Mysteries Of Religion, Knew Nothing Of These Two Texts, I Understand Not Why We Should Be So Fond Of Them Now The Debate Is Over.

This Principle Of Nature Being Very Remote From The Conceptions Of Philosophers, I Forbore To Describe It In That Book, Least I Should Be Accounted An Extravagant Freak And So Prejudice My Readers Against All Those Things Which Were The Main Designe Of The Book.

Truth Is The Offspring Of Silence And Meditation.

The Daily Disappearance And The Subsequent Rise Of The Sun Appeared To Many Of The Ancients As A True Resurrection; Thus, While The East Came To Be Regarded As The Source Of Light And Warmth, Happiness And Glory, The West Was Associated With Darkness And Chill, Decay And Death. This Led To The Custom Of Burying The Dead So As To Face The East When They Rose Again, And Of Building Temples And Shrines With An Opening Toward The East. To Effect This, Vitruvius, Two Thousand Years Ago, Gave Precise Rules, Which Are Still Followed By Christian Architects.

If Others Would Think As Hard As I Did, Then They Would Get Similar Results.