The Continued Exercise of Reason by Brendan Dooley

Author:Brendan Dooley [Dooley, Brendan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: George Boole; switching circuits; Victorian England; Victorian Britain; George Peacock; Leibniz; Aristotle; Isaac Newton; gravity; Descartes; John Wallis; Johannes Kepler; optics; Edward Gibbon; Antoine-Yves Goguet; Jacob Bryant; British Museum; August Tholuck; cults; extraterrestrial; Georges Cuvier; John Pringle Nichol; banned books; John Stuart Mill; experiential learning; Rousseau; Friedrich Froebel; Thomas Chalmers; knowledge; Georges Cuvier; Robert Kane; humanities; symbolic logic; mathematical logic
ISBN: 9780262535007
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2108-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. From the manuscript in University College Cork, Boole Library, Special Collections, BP/1/270–1.

2. The Cuthites lived in 6th century BC Samaria, and the Pelasgians inhabited the Aegean area before the Greeks.

3. Compare Jacob Bryant, A New System or an Analysis of Ancient Mythology (London: J. Walker, 1807), 1:276ff.; Herodotus, Histories, 1:131.

4. Compare Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, in Moralia, vol. 5, trans. Frank Cole Babbitt (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936), sec. 46 (369E): “[Zoroaster] called the one Oromazes and the other Areimanius; and he further declared that among all the things perceptible to the senses, Oromazes may best be compared to light, and Areimanius, conversely, to darkness and ignorance, and midway between the two is Mithras: for this reason the Persians give to Mithras the name of ‘Mediator.’”

5. Herodotus, Histories, 1:131. The quote is rather liberally excerpted from the translation by William Beloe, originally published in 4 volumes (London: Leigh and Sotheby, 1791), 1:104. Newton referenced the same passage in The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended (London: J. Tonson, J. Osborn, and T. Longman, 1728), chap. 2, 220.

6. As Bryant (A New System, 1:94) commented, “How little we know of Druidical worship, either in respect to its essence or its origin.” Yet Vincenzo Bellini’s Druidical opera Norma, with a libretto by Felice Romani, in turn partly based on Vicomte Chateaubriand’s novel Les martyrs (1809), was a hit in London in 1833.

7. All from Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, sec. 47 (370A).

8. The ichneumon is an Egyptian mongoose, and in mythology, the animal into which Ra metamorphoses in order to fight the evil god-snake Apopis.

9. The word “that” in this verse was “who” in the original poem by John Milton, Paradise Lost (1: 477) in vol. 1 of Poetical Works of John Milton, ed. Helen Darbishire (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), 17.

10. The four next lines are omitted.

11. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, trans. C. H. Oldfather (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933), 1:11.

12. Ibid., 1:14.

13. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5:4.

14. Bryant, A New System, 3:182.

15. Genesis 8:20 and 9:20, respectively.

16. Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, sec. 21 (359C–359E).

17. Here at “allotted to the priests,” UCC, MS BP/1/270 breaks off, and MS BP/1/271 begins.

18. On the parallelism between Hinduism and New World religions, see John Delafield, An Inquiry into the Origin of the Antiquities of America: With an Appendix Containing Notes and “A View of the Causes of the Superiority of the Men of the Northern over Those of the Southern Hemisphere” by James Lakey (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1839), especially 31, citing a Rees’s Cyclopedia article suggesting that “the Peruvian worship was that of Vishnu, when he appeared under the form of Chrishna, or the sun: whilst the sanguinary worship of the Mexicans is analogous to that of Siva, when he takes the character of the Stygian Jupiter.” On cannibalism, see Bryant, A New System, 6:311.

19. William Stukeley, Stonehenge, a Temple Restor’d to the British Druids (London: W. Innys and R. Manby, 1740); Richard Colt Hoare, The History of Ancient Wiltshire, 2 vols. (London: William Miller, 1810–1821); John Bathurst Deane, The Worship of the Serpent (London: Gilbert and Rivington, 1833).

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