[1 of 1] St. Augustine (354-430, Algeria): primary subject "Science, criticisms of" (search under Cosmology/Science)": detail "'Confessions' Book V, section iii(4)"
With the mind and intellect which you have given them, they investigate these matters, and have found out much. … They can foresee a future eclipse of the sun, but do not perceive their own eclipse in the present. For they do not in a religious spirit investigate the source of the intelligence with which they research into these matters.
With the mind and intellect which you have given them, they investigate these matters, and have found out much. … They can foresee a future eclipse of the sun, but do not perceive their own eclipse in the present. For they do not in a religious spirit investigate the source of the intelligence with which they research into these matters.