Hypatia : (c.370-415) beautiful eloquent Alexandrian Neo-platonic woman philosopher & mathematician; murdered by Alexandria’s Archbishop’s monks.
... absurdity, even the most monstrous, so that it might once more be permitted to believe in something greater than earth & to have relations with God. The old philosophical spirit was torn to pieces with Hypatia in the bloodstained streets of Alexandria. Theology usurped her place and discoursed blindly & foolishly on transubstantiation and consubstantiality and one knows not what other barren mysteries. So ...
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