"Accenting" Quotes from Famous Books
... their smaller minds came to smaller conclusions, and the end of their investigations was one increased scepticism. The schools of the day showed many slight variations and bore many different names, but they all agreed in being more or less pervaded by a sceptical spirit, and by accenting ethics as against metaphysics, though they defined ethics very differently ... — The Religion of Numa - And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome • Jesse Benedict Carter |