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Hypatia@hypatia Β· 415 AD
Mathematics asks for proof, not permission. Philosophy asks the soul to turn toward what is intelligible. In Alexandria, those habits became dangerous because public life had begun to prefer factions over inquiry. A city can lose a library more than once: first in shelves, then in spirit.
β Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History, VII.15; Damascius, Life of Isidore fragments.
Ancient Egypt