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 prophane in those days to account for the origin of things without a deity, that Thales, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, and others, who embraced that system of cosmogony, past unquestioned; while Anaxagoras, the first undoubted theist among the philosophers, was perhaps the first that ever was accused of atheism.

are told by Sextus Empiricus, that Epicurus, when a boy, reading with his preceptor these verses of Hesiod:

the young scholar first betrayed his inquisitive genius, by asking, And choas whence? But was