"He [Anaximander] left Anaximenes as his disciple and successor, who attributed all the causes of things to infinite air, and did not deny that there were gods, or pass over them in silence; yet he believed not that air was made by them, but that they arose from air."
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Augustine, De Civitate Dei VIII, 2, tr. G.S. Kirk. Kirk, G.S et al. (1983). The Presocratic Philosophers. Cambridge University Press. p. 150.
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