Dialogue

 1 Phileb| Prometheus, who gave the true fire from heaven, is supposed
 2 Phileb|      the elements earth, air, fire, water, exist in us, and
 3 Phileb|    the bodies of all animals, fire, water, air, and, as the
 4 Phileb|      of all of them; there is fire within us, and in the universe.~
 5 Phileb|      SOCRATES: And is not our fire small and weak and mean?
 6 Phileb|    and weak and mean? But the fire in the universe is wonderful
 7 Phileb|       and in every power that fire has.~PROTARCHUS: Most true.~
 8 Phileb|    true.~SOCRATES: And is the fire in the universe nourished
 9 Phileb|    generated and ruled by the fire in us, or is the fire in
10 Phileb|     the fire in us, or is the fire in you and me, and in other
11 Phileb|    dependent on the universal fire?~PROTARCHUS: That is a question
12 Phileb|   then if you put them to the fire, and as a last resort apply