Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1703
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 6
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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18. They have not learned, I will be told, to make clothing, seats, ships, and ploughs, nor, in fine, the other furniture which family life requires. These are not the gifts of science, but the suggestions of most pressing necessity; nor did the arts descend with men's souls from the inmost heavens, but here on earth have they all been painfully sought out and brought to light, [3527] and gradually acquired in process of time by careful thought. But if the soul [3528] had in itself the knowledge which it is fitting that a race should have indeed which is divine and immortal, all men wo…
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