This disposition of mind has been communicated to the Japanese, who, as it may be easily proved, derive their origin from the Tartars. Annals, iii. Numb., 35, 14. Ibid., 16, ff. De Abstinentia animal, ii, �� 5. Lilius Giraldus, p. A people of Siberia. See the account given by Mr.英文原著 · 《The Spirit of Laws》
[200] An echo of Porphyry's De abstinentia ab esu animalium. [201] The allegorical interpretation of the Israelites' despoiling the Egyptians (Ex. 12:35, 36) made it refer to the liberty of Christian thinkers in appropriating whatever was good and true from the pagan philosophers of the Greco-Roman world. This was a favorite theme of Clement of Alexandria and Origen and was quite explicitly developed in Origen's Epistle to Gregory Thaumaturgus (ANF, IX, pp. 295, 296); cf. Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, II, 41-42. [202] Cf. Acts 17:28.英文原著 · 《confessions and enchiridion》