St. George Stock (modern guide) · 1850–1922
A Guide to Stoicism 5 ¶23 — St. George Stock (modern guide)
From “Physic”
Original English text (1908)
St. George Stock (modern guide), A Guide to Stoicism 5 ¶23
As the man is in one sense the soul, in another the body, and in a third the union of both, so it was with the cosmos. The word was used in three senses-- (1) God (2) the arrangement of the stars, etc. (3) the combination of both.
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St. George Stock (modern guide), A Guide to Stoicism 5 ¶23 (1908)
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St. George Stock, Stoicism (1908), text of the Haldeman-Julius reprint “A Guide to Stoicism”. Text: Project Gutenberg #7514. Sources and licences
In plain English
AI-written notesJust as a person can be thought of as soul, as body, or as the two joined, the word cosmos was used for God, for the arrangement of the heavens, or for both together.
Older wording
- “cosmos”
- — the ordered universe
Themes and situations
- Nature and the cosmos
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