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Black_prince [1.1K]
2 years ago
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Read the passage from Of the Wisdom of the Ancients. Now the philosophy of the Greeks, which in investigating the material princ

iples of things is careful and acute, in inquiring the principles of motion, wherein lies all vigour of operation, is negligent and languid; and on the point now in question seems to be altogether blind and babbling; for that opinion of the Peripatetics which refers the original impulse of matter to privation, is little more than words—a name for the thing rather than a description of it. Which phrase from the passage best states its central idea?
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Sonbull [250]2 years ago
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"And on the point now in question seems to be altogether blind and babbling" seems to sum up the opinion of the ancient Greeks and their studies of processes like the motion of matter perhaps because at that time of history of the classical learning much of it was based on pure speculation without going out and getting one's hands dirty and really perceiving phenomena with one's 5  senses as Georgius Agricola did in going down in underground mines to find out firsthand how mining was carried out.
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