Dialogue

1502 Phaedo|            should be most constantly reviewed (Phaedo and Crat.), and
1503 Phaedo|           afterwards should hate and revile them, and lose truth and
1504 Phaedo|           them back again after many revolutions of ages. Now this way to
1505 Phaedo|             souls also receive their reward, and have their abode in
1506 Phaedo|           may satisfy the demands of rhetoric? What is that pain which
1507 Phaedo|         Simmias more superficial and rhetorical; they are distinguished
1508 Phaedo|          descriptions of the poet or rhetorician.~15. The doctrine of the
1509 Phaedo|              man of the world who is rich and prosperous (compare
1510 Phaedo|            and absolute; just as the riddles about motion are to be explained
1511 Phaedo|             two; or the Hesiodic, of righteous spirits, who become guardian
1512 Phaedo|              cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is
1513 Phaedo|            and exhalation of the air rising and falling as the waters
1514 Phaedo|            through life— not without risk, as I admit, if he cannot
1515 Phaedo|        windings, as I infer from the rites and sacrifices which are
1516 Phaedo|          truth—that I had no idea of rivalling him or his poems; to do
1517 Phaedo|              of nail which nails and rivets the soul to the body, until
1518 Phaedo|             are many partings of the road, and windings, as I infer
1519 Phaedo|   philosopher is not ‘made of oak or rock.’ Some other traits of his
1520 Phaedo|              eternal idea. So deeply rooted in Plato’s mind is the belief
1521 Phaedo|              than that at which they rose, and others not much lower,
1522 Phaedo|           Platonic philosophy, which roughly corresponds to the Phaedrus,
1523 Phaedo|        tragedy of the Greeks is not ‘rounded’ by this life, but is deeply
1524 Phaedo|            up on the couch, bent and rubbed his leg, saying, as he was
1525 Phaedo|           his leg, saying, as he was rubbing: How singular is the thing
1526 Phaedo|             they fear poverty or the ruin of their families, like
1527 Phaedo|            service in which they are ruled by the gods who are the
1528 Phaedo|             Once more, he said, what ruler is there of the elements
1529 Phaedo|             gods who are the best of rulers, is not reasonable; for
1530 Phaedo|        dishonours the body; his soul runs away from his body and desires
1531 Phaedo|             or property which he has sacrificed to his lusts—but an evil
1532 Phaedo|             infer from the rites and sacrifices which are offered to the
1533 Phaedo|           many and terrible deeds of sacrilege, murders foul and violent,
1534 Phaedo|             thought that it would be safer for me to satisfy the scruple,
1535 Phaedo|              appears to me to be the safest answer which I can give,
1536 Phaedo|              this frail bark let him sail through life.’ He proceeds
1537 Phaedo|            be the raft upon which he sails through life— not without
1538 Phaedo|           has to be acquired for the sake and in the service of the
1539 Phaedo|               there is no release or salvation from evil except the attainment
1540 Phaedo|             on earth are in a manner samples. But there the whole earth
1541 Phaedo|    acquisition of costly raiment, or sandals, or other adornments of
1542 Phaedo|    abstractions of Greek philosophy, sank deep into the human intelligence.
1543 Phaedo|           highly-valued emeralds and sardonyxes and jaspers, and other gems,
1544 Phaedo|         within. When he came out, he sat down with us again after
1545 Phaedo|              Evenus has been already satirized in the Apology; Aeschines
1546 Phaedo|            yet proven even to my own satisfaction. I cannot get rid of the
1547 Phaedo|         loved, a ghostly apparition, saturated with sense, and therefore
1548 Phaedo|              time, that if they were saved they would send a yearly
1549 Phaedo|             own eyes for sparing and saving a life which is already
1550 Phaedo|         fourteen youths, and was the saviour of them and of himself.
1551 Phaedo|             really blow her away and scatter her; especially if a man
1552 Phaedo|         philosophers of the idealist school who have imagined that the
1553 Phaedo|          survive the conflict with a scientific age in which the rules of
1554 Phaedo|               and also in the Hebrew Scriptures. They convert feeling into
1555 Phaedo|            mind in her own clearness searches into the very truth of each;
1556 Phaedo|             the temperament of their seasons is such that they have no
1557 Phaedo|             thither arriving, she is secure of bliss and is released
1558 Phaedo|           which our own earth is the sediment gathering in the hollows
1559 Phaedo|           how can you reconcile this seemingly true belief that God is
1560 Phaedo|            large sum of money, and I seized the books and read them
1561 Phaedo|               having the same simple self-existent and unchanging forms, not
1562 Phaedo|          their daily round of duties—selfless, childlike, unaffected by
1563 Phaedo|          been conscious of our truer selves, in which the will of God
1564 Phaedo|              state, we refer all our sensations, and with this compare them,
1565 Phaedo|             the mind has become more sensitive to criticism. It has faded
1566 Phaedo|          below she lingers about the sepulchre, loath to leave the body
1567 Phaedo|              The answer to the ‘very serious question’ of generation
1568 Phaedo|              actions, or at any time seriously affect the substance of
1569 Phaedo|              longer be altered. Many sermons have been filled with descriptions
1570 Phaedo|            folds like the coils of a serpent, and descend as far as they
1571 Phaedo|           the care of one of Crito’s servants. Socrates himself has just
1572 Phaedo|              soul commands, the body serves: in this respect too the
1573 Phaedo|        interval between this and the setting of the sun?~Then tell me,
1574 Phaedo|             which the genius of each severally guides them, first of all,
1575 Phaedo|           are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel
1576 Phaedo|        before, now to have our faith shaken seemed to introduce a confusion
1577 Phaedo|              than ours, and some are shallower and also wider. All have
1578 Phaedo|           the globe vary in size and shape from that which we inhabit:
1579 Phaedo|              this double feeling was shared by us all; we were laughing
1580 Phaedo|           again, you and I will both shave our locks; and if I were
1581 Phaedo|             the blood which they had shed in another state of being
1582 Phaedo|              upper earth, which also shines with gold and silver and
1583 Phaedo|              this is the lake to the shores of which the souls of the
1584 Phaedo|           these few is comparatively short-lived. To have been a benefactor
1585 Phaedo|       lasting, and the body weak and shortlived in comparison. He may argue
1586 Phaedo|             upwards and upwards, and showed us that he was cold and
1587 Phaedo|        favourable? For the body when shrunk and embalmed, as the manner
1588 Phaedo|          though we cannot altogether shut out the childish fear that
1589 Phaedo|            like the rivers of mud in Sicily, and the lava streams which
1590 Phaedo|        herself into herself from all sides out of the body; the dwelling
1591 Phaedo|             any one were disposed to sift the matter thoroughly. Should
1592 Phaedo|              refuse me.~Crito made a sign to the servant, who was
1593 Phaedo|              Not that this confusion signifies to them, who never care
1594 Phaedo|      objections appear to be finally silenced. And now the application
1595 Phaedo|             a moment he puts on the ‘Silenus mask’), create in the mind
1596 Phaedo|            also shines with gold and silver and the like, and they are
1597 Phaedo|       existence. I dare say that the simile is not perfect— for I am
1598 Phaedo|           imagining Heaven under the similitude of a church, and Hell as
1599 Phaedo|       Socrates. Their charm is their simplicity, which gives them verisimilitude;
1600 Phaedo|            by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the
1601 Phaedo|      confusing to me, and simply and singly, and perhaps foolishly,
1602 Phaedo|              by the body; and so she sinks into another body and there
1603 Phaedo|           have only committed venial sins are first purified of them,
1604 Phaedo|               went on to show that I sit here because my body is
1605 Phaedo|           the true earth is pure and situated in the pure heaven—there
1606 Phaedo|         hollows of various forms and sizes, into which the water and
1607 Phaedo|              a simple man who has no skill in dialectics believes an
1608 Phaedo|             environment of flesh and skin which contains them; and
1609 Phaedo|           the victims whom they have slain or wronged, to have pity
1610 Phaedo|          themselves afraid of death, slanderously affirm of the swans that
1611 Phaedo|          congratulate ourselves that slavery has become industry; that
1612 Phaedo|              in death. The perpetual sleeper (Endymion) would be no longer
1613 Phaedo|           not therefore proved to be slighter and weaker than a coat.
1614 Phaedo|              and small, or swift and slow, or fair and foul, or black
1615 Phaedo|             and the swifter from the slower.~Very true.~And the worse
1616 Phaedo|             in them in a like degree smoother, and more transparent, and
1617 Phaedo|            dies, and after his death somebody says:—He is not dead, he
1618 Phaedo|            earthly love, or wife, or son, and conversing with them.
1619 Phaedo|             to him—(he had two young sons and an elder one); and the
1620 Phaedo|          earth is of divers colours, sparkling with jewels brighter than
1621 Phaedo|              Scripture (‘Are not two sparrows sold for one farthing?’
1622 Phaedo|             inclined his head to the speaker and listened. I like your
1623 Phaedo|         Dante or Bunyan, the ethical speaks to us still in the same
1624 Phaedo|            there is no better way of spending your money. And you must
1625 Phaedo|             contrary winds, the time spent in going and returning is
1626 Phaedo|            the pantheistic system of Spinoza: or as an individual informing
1627 Phaedo|           and is confused; the world spins round her, and she is like
1628 Phaedo|           the Hesiodic, of righteous spirits, who become guardian angels,—
1629 Phaedo|              which surrounds us, are spoilt and corroded, as in the
1630 Phaedo|         nation, in various states or stages of cultivation; some more
1631 Phaedo|        holiness, and of all which we stamp with the name of essence
1632 Phaedo|  inexperienced as I am, and ready to start, as the proverb says, at
1633 Phaedo|              came out and told us to stay until he called us. ‘For
1634 Phaedo|           asking, affirm when he was staying with us at Thebes: and there
1635 Phaedo|         makes a vortex all round and steadies the earth by the heaven;
1636 Phaedo|              us that he was cold and stiff. And he felt them himself,
1637 Phaedo|           and like the bee, leave my sting in you before I die.~And
1638 Phaedo|              the Eleven, entered and stood by him, saying:—To you,
1639 Phaedo|            hand, seated on a sort of stool, and he on a couch which
1640 Phaedo|        rivers flowing either way are stopped by a precipice. These rivers
1641 Phaedo|         affairs of this life, hardly stopping to think about another.
1642 Phaedo|             words, but should invent stories, and that I have no invention,
1643 Phaedo|             happen to die in a great storm and not when the sky is
1644 Phaedo|             is a long time since any stranger from Athens has found his
1645 Phaedo|           ECHECRATES: Were there any strangers?~PHAEDO: Yes, there were;
1646 Phaedo|              above, is in appearance streaked like one of those balls
1647 Phaedo|            the physical frame may be strengthened and developed; and the religion
1648 Phaedo|           than the flowers which are strewed upon his coffin or the ‘
1649 Phaedo|            the rules of evidence are stricter and the mind has become
1650 Phaedo|            trying to reconcile their strife, and how, when he could
1651 Phaedo|            all these apparent equals strive to attain absolute equality,
1652 Phaedo|           was a good deal higher. He stroked my head, and pressed the
1653 Phaedo|           which he expresses is less strong than that which his cheerfulness
1654 Phaedo|              And first of all we are struck by the calmness of the scene.
1655 Phaedo|          ourselves, and that we must struggle manfully and do our best
1656 Phaedo|              of sight, is after many struggles and many sufferings hardly
1657 Phaedo|              the body is in a manner strung and held together by the
1658 Phaedo|           likely.~No one who has not studied philosophy and who is not
1659 Phaedo|      ridiculous contradiction in men studying to live as nearly as they
1660 Phaedo|           The Eleatic Parmenides had stumbled upon the modern thesis,
1661 Phaedo|              new circumstances, like stunted trees when transplanted
1662 Phaedo|                 and that the highest subjects demand of us the greatest
1663 Phaedo|             by us when we attempt to submit the Phaedo of Plato to the
1664 Phaedo|            time seriously affect the substance of our belief.~8. Another
1665 Phaedo|             only, and no division of substances, then the chaos of Anaxagoras
1666 Phaedo|         above, and is in a finer and subtler element. And if, like birds,
1667 Phaedo|      difficulties of relation. These subtleties he is for leaving to wiser
1668 Phaedo|              not, and whether I have succeeded or not, I shall truly know
1669 Phaedo|       knowledge. In proportion as he succeeds in this, the individual
1670 Phaedo|            his political or military successes fill a page in the history
1671 Phaedo|            and the argument retreats successfully to the position that the
1672 Phaedo|              births, and may at last succumb in one of her deaths and
1673 Phaedo|        injustice, of great waste, of sudden casualties, of disproportionate
1674 Phaedo|         poems and pictures have been suggested by the traditional representations
1675 Phaedo|            not have sold for a large sum of money, and I seized the
1676 Phaedo|          argument from analogy’ thus summarily disposed of. Like himself,
1677 Phaedo|          take his own life until God summons him, as he is now summoning
1678 Phaedo|          immortality of the soul has sunk deep into the heart of the
1679 Phaedo|      returned to us.~Now the hour of sunset was near, for a good deal
1680 Phaedo|    consecutive thinker, Simmias more superficial and rhetorical; they are
1681 Phaedo|        passions, and in the sense of superiority to them—is not temperance
1682 Phaedo|              describing them both in superlatives, only that we may satisfy
1683 Phaedo|       frighten us into believing any superstition. What answer can be made
1684 Phaedo|             unlawful,’ and who first supplies the doctrine of recollection
1685 Phaedo|           thought of heaven and hell supply the motives of our actions,
1686 Phaedo|             earth, which he cleverly supports by the indications of geology.
1687 Phaedo|           when old, is not, as Plato supposes (Republic), more agitated
1688 Phaedo|             degrees. Again, upon the supposition that the soul is a harmony,
1689 Phaedo|          Timaeus is derived from the Supreme Creator, and either returns
1690 Phaedo|           with the body, and are not surfeited with the bodily nature,
1691 Phaedo|          bottom, but is swinging and surging up and down, and the surrounding
1692 Phaedo|             him, and therefore I was surprised at finding that his argument
1693 Phaedo|              one of words, it is not surprising that he should have fallen
1694 Phaedo|              and is conscious of her surroundings; but the soul which desires
1695 Phaedo|              the entire region which surrounds us, are spoilt and corroded,
1696 Phaedo|           certainly demonstrated the survival of the man, who is the more
1697 Phaedo|            many points still open to suspicion and attack, if any one were
1698 Phaedo|             the nightingale, nor the swallow, nor yet the hoopoe; which
1699 Phaedo|            not all things at last be swallowed up in death? (But compare
1700 Phaedo|              does not, like Dante or Swedenborg, allow himself to be deceived
1701 Phaedo|       whether of great and small, or swift and slow, or fair and foul,
1702 Phaedo|           from the stronger, and the swifter from the slower.~Very true.~
1703 Phaedo|              to me their comparative swiftness, and their returnings and
1704 Phaedo|              as in a picture, by the symbol of a creature half-bird,
1705 Phaedo|          words or ideas; the outward symbols of some great mystery, they
1706 Phaedo|            the ‘madman’ Apollodorus (Symp.), Euclid and Terpsion from
1707 Phaedo|             of the scene, and by the sympathy of his Phliasian auditors
1708 Phaedo|       occupations. When this earthly tabernacle is dissolved, no other habitation
1709 Phaedo|            draws after her no bodily taint, having never voluntarily
1710 Phaedo|             family also came, and he talked to them and gave them a
1711 Phaedo|          such things are visible and tangible, but what she sees in her
1712 Phaedo|            he be a wise man, and not tarry; and that to-day I am likely
1713 Phaedo|             I knew, would be no easy task. But I wanted to see whether
1714 Phaedo|            man may touch and see and taste, and use for the purposes
1715 Phaedo|     damnation of so-called Christian teachers,—for every ten years in
1716 Phaedo|             as Aeschylus says in the Telephus, a single and straight path—
1717 Phaedo|              future. Often, as Plato tells us, death is accompanied ‘
1718 Phaedo|              is to us. Moreover, the temperament of their seasons is such
1719 Phaedo|             than air. Also they have temples and sacred places in which
1720 Phaedo|            existence of God does not tend to show the continued existence
1721 Phaedo|      probable future to which we are tending. The greatest changes of
1722 Phaedo|            note at variance with the tensions and relaxations and vibrations
1723 Phaedo|           and Phaedondes; Euclid and Terpison, who came from Megara.~ECHECRATES:
1724 Phaedo|              feeling compare the Old Testament,—Psalm vi.; Isaiah; Eccles.~
1725 Phaedo|         called ‘the madman,’ and who testifies his grief by the most violent
1726 Phaedo|           attributes of God, or from texts of Scripture (‘Are not two
1727 Phaedo|          evil, that great bugbear of theologians, by which they frighten
1728 Phaedo|          pressed into the service of theology, they say, like the companions
1729 Phaedo|     according to Athenian tradition, Theseus went to Crete when he took
1730 Phaedo|             stumbled upon the modern thesis, that ‘thought and being
1731 Phaedo|            into the purposes of God. Thirdly, we may think of them as
1732 Phaedo|             when the body is hot and thirsty, does not the soul incline
1733 Phaedo|          disposed to sift the matter thoroughly. Should you be considering
1734 Phaedo|              herself up again to the thraldom of pleasures and pains,
1735 Phaedo|          then again more gently; now threatening, now admonishing the desires,
1736       | throughout
1737 Phaedo|              stream is called, which throws up jets of fire in different
1738 Phaedo|              the mysteries, ‘are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics,’—
1739 Phaedo|               as into basins, a vast tide of water, and huge subterranean
1740 Phaedo|              of perfection give us a title to belong? Whatever answer
1741 Phaedo|            weighed down by excessive toil; when the necessity of providing
1742 Phaedo|           and may at last, after the toils of life are over, end in
1743 Phaedo|             offering to Asclepius in token of his recovery.~...~1.
1744 Phaedo|              which are laid upon his tomb. Literature makes the most
1745 Phaedo|           world below—prowling about tombs and sepulchres, near which,
1746 Phaedo|             the wicked are suffering torments, or that the good are singing
1747 Phaedo|         eclipse of faith,’ to us the total disappearance of it might
1748 Phaedo|             is a difficulty which is touched upon in the Republic as
1749 Phaedo|            like a drunkard, when she touches change?~Very true.~But when
1750 Phaedo|              years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale
1751 Phaedo|        history in time, which may be traced in Greek poetry or philosophy,
1752 Phaedo|              the poet Pindar and the tragedians on the other hand constantly
1753 Phaedo|              must have observed this trait of character?~I have.~And
1754 Phaedo|             oak or rock.’ Some other traits of his character may be
1755 Phaedo|            by what may be termed the transcendental method of interpretation,
1756 Phaedo|        should at last be too glad to transfer the blame from himself to
1757 Phaedo|            the science of physiology transform the world? Again, the majority
1758 Phaedo|              all of us in process of transition from one degree of good
1759 Phaedo|          seed and the ear of corn or transitions in the life of animals from
1760 Phaedo|              And while we may fairly translate the dialectical into the
1761 Phaedo|            arguments, they should be translated as far as possible into
1762 Phaedo|            degree smoother, and more transparent, and fairer in colour than
1763 Phaedo|              like stunted trees when transplanted to a better soil. The differences
1764 Phaedo|           life are rectified by some transposition of human beings in another,
1765 Phaedo|   inconsistent would they be if they trembled and repined, instead of
1766 Phaedo|              said: You are raising a tremendous question, Cebes, involving
1767 Phaedo|             the even?~None.~Then the triad or number three is uneven?~
1768 Phaedo|            irony he remembers that a trifling religious duty is still
1769 Phaedo|             was the difficulty which troubled you?~Cebes said: I will
1770 Phaedo|           forth and cease from their troubles; but if not, they are carried
1771 Phaedo|             our importunity might be troublesome under present at such a
1772 Phaedo|             which is a sort of broad trough. Any power which in arranging
1773 Phaedo|             part, instead of playing truant and running away, of enduring
1774 Phaedo|             deems to be his own most trusted and familiar friends, and
1775 Phaedo|             has been proven to me on trustworthy grounds; and the proof was
1776 Phaedo|          have made a fable about God trying to reconcile their strife,
1777 Phaedo|             which are said indeed to tune a lay of sorrow, although
1778 Phaedo|             and proceeding muddy and turbid, and winding about the earth,
1779 Phaedo|            have leather coverings in twelve pieces, and is decked with
1780 Phaedo|          prepared to give the poison twice or even thrice if necessary;
1781 Phaedo|    philosophy. They were living in a twilight between the sensible and
1782 Phaedo|     represented them in a fable as a two-headed creature of the gods.’ The
1783 Phaedo|            portion of injustice, and tyranny, and violence, will pass
1784 Phaedo|            soul will depart pure and unalloyed?~Impossible, he replied.~
1785 Phaedo|             to linger among critical uncertainties.~
1786 Phaedo|       eternity, and immortality, and unchangeableness, which are her kindred,
1787 Phaedo|           Comus:—~‘But when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and
1788 Phaedo|          small, that nothing is more uncommon than a very large or very
1789 Phaedo|             to me, why do you remain unconvinced?—When you see that the weaker
1790 Phaedo|               he said.~Again, if the uncooling or warm principle were imperishable,
1791 Phaedo|              which remains whole and undecayed. And then he proceeds to
1792 Phaedo|            filled with notions of an under-world.~16. Yet after all the belief
1793 Phaedo|          literature respecting this ‘underground’ religion, is not to be
1794 Phaedo|            which they are capable of understanding. Enough of them: the real
1795 Phaedo|             But this ‘best’ is still undiscovered; and in enquiring after
1796 Phaedo|              doing a work only to be undone again, weaving instead of
1797 Phaedo|          would agree; would you not?~Undoubtedly, Socrates.~But, O my friend,
1798 Phaedo|              strings of the body are unduly loosened or overstrained
1799 Phaedo|             triad or number three is uneven?~Very true.~To return then
1800 Phaedo|    experience may often reveal to us unexpected flashes of the higher nature
1801 Phaedo|            these admissions were not unfair, Cebes, he said, may be
1802 Phaedo|             and of friends. But this unfortunate experience should not make
1803 Phaedo|              religious duty is still unfulfilled, just as above he desires
1804 Phaedo|      immortal, and intellectual, and uniform, and indissoluble, and unchangeable;
1805 Phaedo|              passes unsanctified and uninitiated into the world below will
1806 Phaedo|           the human, and mortal, and unintellectual, and multiform, and dissoluble,
1807 Phaedo|         philosophy which too closely unites them, or too widely separates
1808 Phaedo|         becomes two, or that the two units added together make two
1809 Phaedo|              moral government of the universe. Sometimes we are led by
1810 Phaedo|              may be elicited from an unlearned person when a diagram is
1811       | unlikely
1812 Phaedo|             the thought of them when unlimited us so overwhelming to us
1813 Phaedo|          snow have retired whole and unmelted—for it could never have
1814 Phaedo|        Socrates, whom they think too unmoved at the prospect of leaving
1815 Phaedo|            musical, or the just?~The unmusical, he said, and the unjust.~
1816 Phaedo|        crimes, great indeed, but not unpardonable, are thrust into Tartarus,
1817 Phaedo|            is still, in my judgment, unproven. Now my objection is not
1818 Phaedo|          long ago that he who passes unsanctified and uninitiated into the
1819 Phaedo|             alone perceive the utter unsoundness and instability of all arguments,
1820 Phaedo|              disagreed I regarded as untrue. But I should like to explain
1821 Phaedo|            again, weaving instead of unweaving her Penelope’s web. But
1822 Phaedo|        remain in doubt; but they are unwilling to raise objections at such
1823 Phaedo|             think, not improperly or unworthily, that something of the kind
1824 Phaedo|            the soul. It is Cebes who urges that the pre-existence does
1825 Phaedo|             not the pleasure which I usually feel in philosophical discourse (
1826 Phaedo|            is said about them to the uttermost, or whose heart failed him
1827 Phaedo|           the letter. One request he utters in the very act of death,
1828 Phaedo|            were to be ‘fugitives and vagabonds upon the earth.’ The desire
1829 Phaedo|         appears to you to have but a vain and foolish confidence,
1830 Phaedo|             than at another; it even varies from day to day. It comes
1831 Phaedo|             continuous appearance of variety in unity. And in this fair
1832 Phaedo|             the surface of the globe vary in size and shape from that
1833 Phaedo|              is a chasm which is the vastest of them all, and pierces
1834 Phaedo|             damp Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering,
1835 Phaedo|           calmness of his behaviour, veiling his face when he can no
1836 Phaedo|              who have only committed venial sins are first purified
1837 Phaedo|             executions; and when the vessel is detained by contrary
1838 Phaedo|        Acheron, and embarking in any vessels which they may find, are
1839 Phaedo|             the Old Testament,—Psalm vi.; Isaiah; Eccles.~12. When
1840 Phaedo|         tensions and relaxations and vibrations and other affections of
1841 Phaedo|             within her, and that the vicious soul is inharmonical and
1842 Phaedo|      throughout life, sometimes more violently with the pains of medicine
1843 Phaedo|        another discord, and that the virtuous soul is harmonized, and
1844 Phaedo|            alludes playfully; but he vividly remembers the disappointment
1845 Phaedo|             form seas and rivers and volcanoes. There is a perpetual inhalation
1846 Phaedo|           bodily taint, having never voluntarily during life had connection
1847 Phaedo|             And thus one man makes a vortex all round and steadies the
1848 Phaedo|              and Cebes, why the true votaries of philosophy abstain from
1849 Phaedo|             For I deem that the true votary of philosophy is likely
1850 Phaedo|           And they were said to have vowed to Apollo at the time, that
1851 Phaedo|             they are dead, and after waiting an appointed time, which
1852 Phaedo|          refrained our tears; and he walked about until, as he said,
1853 Phaedo|             through herself; she was wallowing in the mire of every sort
1854 Phaedo|           and not a mere retainer or wand-bearer: and he refers to passages
1855 Phaedo|             they said, ‘Many are the wand-bearers but few are the mystics.’ (
1856 Phaedo|             and that which decays to wane?~Yes, he said.~And there
1857 Phaedo|         followed after gluttony, and wantonness, and drunkenness, and have
1858 Phaedo|              in his life he had been warned in dreams that he should
1859 Phaedo|           their own, such as bees or wasps or ants, or back again into
1860 Phaedo|              in and out, is that the watery element has no bed or bottom,
1861 Phaedo|              the end of the year the wave casts them forth—mere homicides
1862 Phaedo|          that which grows is said to wax, and that which decays to
1863 Phaedo|             it is lost. It is really weakest in the hour of death. For
1864 Phaedo|             or happiness which never wearies by monotony? Earthly pleasures
1865 Phaedo|          like manner that every soul wears out many bodies, especially
1866 Phaedo|      inclined to think that she will weary in the labours of successive
1867 Phaedo|          decays, and the soul always weaves another garment and repairs
1868 Phaedo|             only to be undone again, weaving instead of unweaving her
1869 Phaedo|             unweaving her Penelope’s web. But she will calm passion,
1870 Phaedo|       express in a figure, is of any weight. The analogy which I will
1871 Phaedo|              my friend, is heavy and weighty and earthy, and is that
1872 Phaedo|           that I covered my face and wept, not for him, but at the
1873 Phaedo|            elements of hot and cold, wet and dry, then the soul is
1874       | wherein
1875       | wherever
1876 Phaedo|          earth is flat or round; and whichever was true, he would proceed
1877 Phaedo|             all. There is a doctrine whispered in secret that man is a
1878 Phaedo|              among them all, far and wide, sparing neither pains nor
1879 Phaedo|          closely unites them, or too widely separates them, either in
1880 Phaedo|          some are shallower and also wider. All have numerous perforations,
1881 Phaedo|            there an earthly love, or wife, or son, and conversing
1882 Phaedo|            his possessions, with the willingness to die which we were just
1883 Phaedo|            of God has superseded our wills, and we have entered into
1884 Phaedo|          belief for ourselves; or to win it back again when it is
1885 Phaedo|          exterior limit, or take the wings of a bird and come to the
1886 Phaedo|             Tim., compare Crito), he wins belief for his fictions
1887 Phaedo|        certain of what was meant, he wished to fulfil the admonition
1888 Phaedo|             said: I return your good wishes, and will do as you bid.
1889 Phaedo|              wants; he has long been wishing to say something to me.~
1890 Phaedo|       speaking the truth; or if not, withstand me might and main, that
1891 Phaedo|         Aristophanes there is also a witness to the common sentiment.
1892 Phaedo|          takes the form of an ass, a wolf or a kite. And of these
1893 Phaedo|             violence, will pass into wolves, or into hawks and kites;—
1894 Phaedo|            Often, Echecrates, I have wondered at Socrates, but never more
1895 Phaedo|          Cebes said that he had been wonderfully impressed by that part of
1896 Phaedo|            which he himself wove and wore, and which remains whole
1897 Phaedo|       decrees of fate and mysterious workings of powers beneath the earth.
1898 Phaedo|              numbs the sense of both worlds; and the habit of life is
1899 Phaedo|              or mental? And does the worship of God consist only of praise,
1900 Phaedo|            in the world below he can worthily enjoy her, still repine
1901 Phaedo|          then his quick sense of the wound which had been inflicted
1902 Phaedo|            the coat which he himself wove and wore, and which remains
1903 Phaedo|             weaver aforesaid, having woven and worn many such coats,
1904 Phaedo|            well as in the spirit, by writing verses as well as by cultivating
1905 Phaedo|            his heart.’ Could he have written this under the idea that
1906 Phaedo|          suffered the penalty of the wrongs which they have done to
1907 Phaedo|       constant care of the body have wrought into her nature.~Very true.~
1908 Phaedo|             mystics.’ (Compare Matt. xxii.: ‘Many are called but few
1909 Phaedo|              saved they would send a yearly mission to Delos. Now this
1910 Phaedo|            of me only the day before yesterday by Evenus the poet —he will
1911 Phaedo|          goddess, who has graciously yielded to us; but what shall I
1912 Phaedo|             relation to him from his younger disciples. He is a man of
1913 Phaedo|           mind’s eye an image of the youth to whom the lyre belongs?
1914 Phaedo|           took with him the fourteen youths, and was the saviour of
1915 Phaedo|        mysteries or of a disciple of Zoroaster. Nor can we fairly demand