[Footnote 9: _Ibid._, II. xi. 5 (p. 52).] BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The text of this edition is reproduced from a copy in the Henry E. Huntington Library. Democritus Platonissans, Or, _AN ESSAY_ Upon The INFINITY OF WORLDS Out Of PLATONICK PRINCIPLES. Hereunto is annexed CUPIDS CONFLICT together with THE PHILOSOPHERS DEVOTION: And a Particular Interpretation appertaining to the three last books of the _Song of the Soul_. By _H. More_ Master of Arts, and Fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge. Ἀγαθὸς ἦν τὸ πᾶν τόδε ὁ συνιστὰς, ἀγαθῷ δὲ οὐδεὶς περὶ οὐδενὸς οὐδέποτε ἐγγίνεται φθόνος. Τούτου δ’ ἐκτὸς ὢν πάντα ὁτι μάλιστα ἐβουλήθη γενέσθαι παραπλήσια αὑτῷ. Plat. _Pythagoras Terram Planetam quendam esse censuit qui circa solem in centro mundi defixum converteretur, Pythagorans secuti sunt Philolaus, Seleucus, Cleanthes, &c. imò PLATO jam senex, ut narrat Theophrastus._ Libert. Fromond, de Orbe terræ immobili. _CAMBRIDGE_ Printed by ROGER DANIEL, Printer to the UNIVERSITIE. 1646. To the Reader. READER, _If thou standest not to the judgement of thine eye more then of thy reason, this fragment may passe favourably, though in the neglectfull disguise of a fragment; if the strangenesse of the argument prove no hinderance. INFINITIE of WORLDS! A thing monstrous if assented to, and to be startled at, especially by them, whose thoughts this one have alwayes so engaged, that they can find no leisure to think of any thing else. But I onely make a bare proposall to more acute judgements, of what my sportfull fancie, with pleasure hath suggested: following my old designe of furnishing mens minds with varietie of apprehensions concerning the most weightie points of Philosophie, that they may not seem rashly to have settled in the truth, though it be the truth: a thing as ill beseeming Philosophers, as hastie prejudicative sentence Politicall Judges. But if I had relinquishd here my wonted self, in proving Dogmaticall, I should have found very noble Patronage for the cause among the ancients, =Epicurus=, =Democritus=, =Lucretius=, =&c.= Or if justice may reach the dead, do them the right, as to shew, that though they be hooted at, by the Rout of the learned, as men of monstrous conceits, they were either very wise or exceeding fortunate to light on so probable and specious an opinion, in which notwithstanding there is so much difficultie and seeming inconsistencie._