Dialogue

 1 Parme|  regarded the character of ‘the great’ Parmenides has extended
 2 Parme|         affected to decline the great argument, on which, as Zeno
 3 Parme|        this in the mouth of the great Parmenides himself, who
 4 Parme|        than to ascribe to their great master tenets the reverse
 5 Parme|        cannot conceive that the great artist would place in juxtaposition
 6 Parme|       had come to Athens at the great Panathenaea, the former
 7 Parme|       by partaking of likeness, great by partaking of greatness,
 8 Parme|      you venture to affirm that great objects have a portion only
 9 Parme|       arise as follows: you see great objects pervaded by a common
10 Parme|        arises, which makes both great; and this may go on to infinity.’
11 Parme|         older philosophers were great and awful; and they had
12 Parme|         he will despise neither great things nor small, and he
13 Parme|        as in the sun and stars, great truths are contained. At
14 Parme|        partaking of littleness, great by partaking of greatness,
15 Parme|         that will not make them great, etc.; nor can each object
16 Parme|         an object.’ Here is the great though unconscious truth (
17 Parme|        out this difficulty with great clearness. According to
18 Parme|       echo or anticipation of a great truth or error, exercised
19 Parme|         hypotheses questions of great interest might arise. And
20 Parme|         and every part, however great or however small, is equally
21 Parme|         relation to which it is great. And there will be no great
22 Parme|     great. And there will be no great or small in objects, but
23 Parme|         and in equality implies great and small, and equality
24 Parme|       and equality lies between great and small, and therefore
25 Parme|    mankind have often given too great importance to a word or
26 Parme|        their obligations to the great master, or rather, perhaps,
27 Parme|         own first ideas was too great for them, or there might,
28 Parme|       takes us away from God; a great deal brings us back to Him.’
29 Parme|      Athens, as he said, at the great Panathenaea; the former
30 Parme|      there was no pretence of a great purpose; nor any serious
31 Parme|      partake of similarity; and great things become great, because
32 Parme|         and great things become great, because they partake of
33 Parme| greatness, and that of the many great things, each one is great
34 Parme|       great things, each one is great in virtue of a portion of
35 Parme|    follows:—You see a number of great objects, and when you look
36 Parme|        idea of greatness and of great things which are not the
37 Parme|       of which they will all be great, and so each idea instead
38 Parme|         see then, Socrates, how great is the difficulty of affirming
39 Parme|     their existence be a man of great ability and knowledge, and
40 Parme|        however small or however great, is devoid of it? And, indeed,
41 Parme|       fail in any part, whether great or small, or whatever may
42 Parme|         which the one, if it is great, must exceed; this, however,
43 Parme|       will not be afterwards so great as at first, but if an equal
44 Parme|       the passage from small to great and equal and back again,
45 Parme|       will be neither small nor great, nor equal, nor in a state
46 Parme|       the smallest becomes very great, in comparison with the