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Single Idea 2636

[filed under theme 28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique ]

Full Idea

There must be many wild and primitive peoples who have no idea of the gods at all.

Gist of Idea

Many primitive people know nothing of the gods

Source

M. Tullius Cicero (On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') [c.44 BCE], I.62)

Book Ref

Cicero: 'The Nature of the Gods', ed/tr. McGregor,Horace [Penguin 1972], p.94