CHAPTER VII

PHILOSOPHERS OF THE ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOL

Ammonius Saccas—Plotinus—Porphyry—Hypatia—Incautious admissions of Synesius—Writings of this initiate—More especially his tract on Dreams—The commentary of Jerome Cardan thereon—Attribution of the works of St Dionysius to Synesius—Their orthodoxy and their value 215

## BOOK IV

_MAGIC AND CIVILISATION_

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