The place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe

ILLUSTRATIONS OF BELIEF IN MAGIC IN MEDIÆVAL AND IN EARLY MODERN TIMES PAGE General belief in witchcraft, in astrology, and in the existence of magicians 11 Even the most educat...

Magic once regarded as a reality 27 Magic præternatural rather than supernatural 27 Belief in magic perhaps older than belief in divine beings 28 Magic not originally a secret a...

I. _The Character of the Work_: Its extensive treatment of both science and magic 37 Objections to regarding it as a true picture of ancient science 38 Reasons for so regarding...

Derivative and cosmopolitan character of intellectual life during the imperial period 56 Extent of our discussion of its antecedents 56 Question as to freedom of Greek thought f...

I. _General Attitude_: Prejudice against “magic” and condemnation of Magi 65 Views of Apuleius and of Philostratus 66 In reality a widespread belief in magic 67 Explanation of a...

I. _Opponents of Astrology_: Cicero, Favorinus and Sextus Empiricus 89 Considerations which discount their scepticism 89 Inadequacy of their arguments 90 Astrology attacked as b...

Intellectual characteristics of the period 99 Marcellus of Bordeaux 99 Ammianus Marcellinus 99 His description of the state of learning at Alexandria 100 His justification of di...

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Even a slight acquaintance with European history reveals the existence of a number of curious and apparently unreasonable beliefs prevalent throughout a period extending from ea...

To men of the past—how long ago does not at present matter—magic meant far more than the performance for their amusement of clever tricks, which however puzzling they knew well...

We should have to search long before finding a better starting-point for the consideration of the union of magic with the science of the Roman Empire and of the way in which tha...

Writers who have discussed the intellectual life under the Roman Empire generally agree that it was not marked by originality and creative power, and owed a perhaps unusually la...

Having shown reason for believing that the _Natural History_ is a fairly accurate mirror of the science of the past, we come now to examine Pliny’s own age and to observe to wha...

The reader will remember how men in the Roman Empire condemned “magic” but understood the word in a restricted and bad sense; how Pliny made pretensions to complete freedom from...

We come now to consider some indications of the intermixture of magic with learning in the last century of the Roman Empire, the border-time of the Middle Ages. It was a time wh...

Our survey of the Roman Empire and of the ancient world of thought which it represented is finished. We have found reason to believe that hatred and dread of “magic,” the confus...

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