Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. Hypatia 350 A.D - 415 A.D As a Neoplatonist philosopher, she belonged to the mathematic tradition of the Academy of Athens, as represented by Eudoxus of Cnidus; she was of the intellectual school of the 3rd century thinker Plotinus, which encouraged logic and mathematical study in place of empirical inquiry and strongly encouraged law in place of nature. The last of the great Philosophers and thinkers of Hellenism. With her brutal & tragic death Hellenism as a free thinking ideology of enlightenment died with her bringing in the Dark Ages that lasted for a 1000 years.
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