The Epicurean informs us that the world originated in a rain of atoms through space; he examines into the foundations of human knowledge; and he proceeds to make himself comfortable in a world from which he has removed those disturbing elements, the gods.

The Skeptic decides that there is no such thing as truth, before he enunciates the dogma that it is not worth while to worry about anything.

The philosophy of each school includes a view of the system of things as a whole.

The philosopher still regarded the universe of knowledge as his province.
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PHILOSOPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES .-- I cannot do more than mention Neo-Platonism, that half Greek and half Oriental system of doctrine which arose in the third century after Christ, the first system of importance after the schools mentioned above.