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CHAPTER IX.
COSMOLOGY AND THEOLOGY 		194
Difference between the astronomical conceptions of
Epicurus and of Aristotle, 		194 ; Greek astronomy, 196 ;
celestial phenomena treated as inaccessible to observa-
tion, 197 ; denial of divine interference, 200 ; God and
the universe, 201 ; the Epicurean theory of the gods,
202 ; criticism of the theory, 207 ; national and per-
sonal religion, 209.
CHAPTER X.
LOGIC AND PSYCHOLOGY 		212
Dislike to formal logic, 212 ; experience versus
reasoning, 215 ; the genesis of knowledge, senses and
association, 216 ; prolepsis or preconception, 220 ;
aversion to abstract ideas and to mathematics, 222 ;
the imaginative impressions of the mind, 224 ; tests
of truth, 226 ; Epicureanism ignores the "I think,"
230 ; Philodemus on inductive logic, 232 ; sensation
a mode of motion, 235.
CHAPTER XI.
HISTORICAL SKETCH AND CONCLUSION 		239
Influence of Epicurus, 239 ; causes of the popularity
of his system, 240 ; political corruption of his time,
244 ; persecution of the Epicureans, 245 ; their alleged
infidelity, 247 ; incident from Lucian, 248 ; Epicurean-
ism at Rome, 250 ; Amafinius and Lucretius, 251 ;
Cicero in his relations with Epicureanism, 253 ; Phi-
lodemus, 255 ; chairs of philosophy at Athens, 257 ;
the Christian Fathers on Epicureanism, 259 ; Epicu-
reanism in the Middle Ages and at the Renaissance,
260 ; Gassendi, 263 ; modern works on Epicurus,
265 ; Modern Hedonism, 269.

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