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And here we must note a further limitation Of the subject Of the Romans Questions and of this Introduction. Surprise and inquiry are excited not by the familiar, but by the unusual so Plutarch's attention was arrested not by customs which, though purely Italian, were universal in Italy, e.g., the practice of covering the head during worship, but by fashions for which he could find no analogy or parallel in the stage Of religion with which alone he was acquainted. In such isolated customs, out of harmony with their surroundings, modern science sees survivals from an earlier stage Of culture and it is as survivals that they will be treated in this Introduction. Now, the stage Of religion with which Plutarch was familiar, and in which he could find no analogies for those fashions and customes, was polytheism and if those practices are survivals, they must be survivals from a stage of religion earlier than polytheism.
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And here we must note a further limitation Of the subject Of the Romans Questions and of this Introduction. Surprise and inquiry are excited not by the familiar, but by the unusual so Plutarch's attention was arrested not by customs which, though purely Italian, were universal in Italy, e.g., the practice of covering the head during worship, but by fashions for which he could find no analogy or parallel in the stage Of religion with which alone he was acquainted. In such isolated customs, out of harmony with their surroundings, modern science sees survivals from an earlier stage Of culture and it is as survivals that they will be treated in this Introduction. Now, the stage Of religion with which Plutarch was familiar, and in which he could find no analogies for those fashions and customes, was polytheism and if those practices are survivals, they must be survivals from a stage of religion earlier than polytheism.
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Head-master of Coventry Free School), is still apparent to those who read this translation. But things are now so changed that the English language of to-day cannot provide a seemly garb for Plutarchs ancient reasonings. To say in modern English that five is the odd number most connected with marriage, is to ex)ose the Pythagorean doctrine of numbers to modem ridicule. But when Philemon says, Now among al odde numbers it seemeth that Cinque is most nuptial, even the irreverent modem cannot fail to feel that Cinque was an eminently respectable character, whose views were strictly honourable and a bright example to other odde numbers. Again, Philemons insertion of the words it seemeth makes for reverence. The insertion is not apologetic; nor does it intimate that the translator hesitates to subscribe to so strange a statement. Rather, it simimons the reader to give closer attention to the words which are about to followwords of wisdom such as is to be found nowhere else but only in the fountain of all knowledge, Greek. Insertions and amplifications are indeed characteristic of Philemon as a translator.
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