Dialogue

 1 Intro|      Like the midwives, who are ‘past bearing children,’ he too
 2 Intro|          only of the present and past, but of the future; and
 3 Intro|    herself, comparing within her past, present, and future. For
 4 Intro|          have inherited from the past. Many erroneous conceptions
 5 Intro|         they belong to all times—past, present, and future. Any
 6 Intro|       without end. We speak of a past, present, and future, and
 7 Intro|   recalling impressions from the past.~Thus begins the passage
 8 Intro| conceptions of the wisdom of the past as are inseparable from
 9 Intro|      only be contemplated in the past, that is to say, in the
10 Intro|        or reanimating the buried past: (4) thought, in which images
11  Thea|           but only those who are past bearing.~THEAETETUS: Yes,
12  Thea|   preparation; for of present or past pleasure we are not as yet
13  Thea|      comparing in herself things past and present with the future.~