25/65 See also Epist.64.Seneca implies continuity in scientific research. Aristotle had stated this expressly, pointing out that we are indebted not only to the author of the philosophical theory which we accept as true, but also to the predecessors whose views it has superseded (Metaphysics, i.ii. But he seems to consider his own system as final.] But these predictions are far from showing that Seneca had the least inkling of a doctrine of the Progress of humanity. |