Dialogue

 501  Thea|             and know the elevation or depression of the sound of them; but
 502 Intro|          religious; 3rdly, Because it deprives us of the means and instruments
 503 Intro|            the Cynics themselves were depriving virtue of all which made
 504  Thea|              cases our philosopher is derided by the vulgar, partly because
 505 Intro|             may be illustrated by its derivative conscience, which speaks
 506  Thea|                what disgrace may have descended to any one from his ancestors,
 507 Intro|              And he who boasts of his descent from Amphitryon in the twenty-fifth
 508 Intro|           part from touch or from the descriptions of others. At first it appears
 509 Intro|              Ages, or in the literary desert of China or of India, that
 510 Intro|             the characters and in the design.~The dialogue is an enquiry
 511 Intro|               argument. As he is very desirous of doing justice to Protagoras,
 512  Thea|    digressions from which we must now desist, or they will overflow,
 513  Thea|             of heart, but in positive despair; for I do not know what
 514 Intro|          negative result is not to be despised. For on certain subjects,
 515  Thea|          either in their self-conceit despising me, or falling under the
 516 Intro|           than he sinks into a fit of despondency. For an objection occurs
 517  Thea|              I know that you are like destiny; no man can escape from
 518 Intro|              Megarian quibbles, which destroy logic, ‘Not only man, but
 519  Thea|           inactivity of not-being and destruction; for fire and warmth, which
 520 Intro|              The universals which are detached from sense are reconstructed
 521 Intro|              have pursued it far into detail have never examined the
 522 Intro|        conjecture’ than arrive at any detailed or accurate knowledge. Later
 523  Thea|               or ‘that,’ or any other detaining name to be used, in the
 524 Intro|             himself, and is the great detector of the errors and fallacies
 525 Intro|         thinkers which become logical determinations; and they have to be arranged
 526 Intro|             she no longer doubts, but determines and forms an opinion. And
 527 Intro|             able to trace the gradual developement of ideas through religion,
 528 Intro|            this, at a higher stage of development, the opposition of moral
 529  Thea|             and from this he must not deviate. He is a servant, and is
 530 Intro|            further use is made of the device. As Plato himself remarks,
 531 Intro|            the ‘reductio ad absurdum’ devised by Socrates for his ‘homo
 532 Intro|               part of the dialogue is devoted to setting up and throwing
 533  Thea|             you are a true measure of diagrams, or whether all men are
 534 Intro|             opinion; for the Athenian dicasts have true opinion but not
 535 Intro|             they fell short; and have died in a manner disappointed
 536 Intro|         letters’ (Republic), slightly differing in form and exquisitely
 537 Intro|          before we know the nature of digestion; we think before we know
 538 Intro|              Hume give no adequate or dignified conception of the mind.
 539 Intro|             than a child.—But we have digressed enough.~‘For my part, Socrates,
 540 Intro|               of philosophers, we are digressing; I have often observed how
 541 Intro|             involved once more in the dilemma of saying, either that there
 542  Thea|               there is no increase or diminution of anything, but only equality.~
 543 Intro|             absent from us, we have a dimmer conception of other objects
 544 Intro|             brothers,’ Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, and may be compared with
 545  Thea|             they begin to grow again. Dire are the pangs which my art
 546 Intro|               was a step in the right direction, when Protagoras said that ‘
 547 Intro|            object, which is perceived directly, to many which are perceived
 548  Thea|            not be equally inclined to disagree with him, when you remember
 549  Thea|               again, ‘he agreed,’ or ‘disagreed,’ in the answer, lest the
 550  Thea|          which were previously raised disappear. I dare say that you agree
 551 Intro|            happen. Hence he is led to discard the explanation which might
 552 Intro|            Like the Cynics, again, he discarded knowledge in any higher
 553  Thea|               what is the power which discerns, not only in sensible objects,
 554 Intro|             Plato at Megara. Socrates disclaims the character of a professional
 555  Thea|          incur less disgrace if he is discomfited.~SOCRATES: Then now let
 556 Intro|         knowledge appear to be wholly disconnected from ethics and religion,
 557  Thea|           they grow at last strangely discontented with themselves; their rhetoric
 558 Intro|           admit of the spontaneity or discontinuity of the mind—it seems to
 559  Thea|           THEAETETUS: When I hear you discoursing in this style, I think that
 560 Intro|    ascertained are independent of the discoverer. Further consideration shows
 561 Intro|             Megarian philosophy, soon discovers a flaw in the explanation.
 562  Thea|           until you and Socrates have discussed the doctrine of those who
 563  Thea|              he will close with us in disdain, and say:—The worthy Socrates
 564  Thea|             is in the city: his mind, disdaining the littlenesses and nothingnesses
 565  Thea|               raised about dreams and diseases, in particular about madness,
 566 Intro|             doxa, and could hardly be disengaged from one another in the
 567  Thea|            and unjust, honourable and disgraceful, holy and unholy, are in
 568 Intro|               one to be veiled in the disguise of the other, lest through
 569 Intro|              a mode of argument which disgusts men with philosophy as they
 570  Thea|                SOCRATES: Because I am disheartened at my own stupidity and
 571 Intro|           resorted to counter-acts of dishonesty and falsehood, and become
 572 Intro|             ones. For example, we are disinclined to admit of the spontaneity
 573 Intro|              The facts themselves are disjointed; the causes of them run
 574  Thea|           experience to him, he being dismayed, and lost, and stammering
 575  Thea|            whom you would not like to disobey, and whose word ought to
 576  Thea|           also take away the evil and disordered sensations of plants, and
 577 Intro|            aside; and images, in part disorderly, but also having a unity (
 578  Thea|             said of madness and other disorders? the difference is only
 579 Intro|            result which is everywhere displayed by him, he proposes that
 580 Intro|              equally sure that we can disprove the truth of immediate states
 581 Intro|       dialogues. He is the invincible disputant, now advanced in years,
 582  Thea|         SOCRATES: After the manner of disputers (Lys.; Phaedo; Republic),
 583 Intro|        argument out, he often becomes dissatisfied with himself, and has no
 584 Intro|               he will not allow me to dissemble the truth. Once more then,
 585 Intro| self-destructive, and, indeed, hardly distinguishable from one another. But his
 586 Intro|      falsehood, and become warped and distorted; without any health or freedom
 587 Intro|             Socrates, has been sorely distressed by them. Socrates explains
 588  Thea|              as we term them, quickly distribute them into their proper places
 589 Intro|               circumstances, as it is distributed in nations, as it is renovated
 590 Intro|           ordinary modes of speech is disturbing to the mind. The youthful
 591 Intro|             his hands; the path never diverges, and often the race is for
 592  Thea|         nature make you give many and diverse things, when I am asking
 593 Intro|             excused for making a bold diversion. All this time we have been
 594 Intro|           compare Cratylus). Yet from diversity of statements and opinions
 595 Intro|              associations or bare and divested of them. We say to ourselves
 596 Intro|              the human frame. Who can divide the nerves or great nervous
 597 Intro|      oven-makers.’ Theaetetus at once divines that Socrates means him
 598 Intro|          suppose that practice can be divorced from speculation, or that
 599  Thea|          philosopher his revenge; for dizzied by the height at which he
 600  Thea|     unrighteous man, or the sayer and doer of unholy things, had far
 601 Intro|            the apertures of the mind, doors and windows through which
 602  Thea|             truth of Protagoras being doubted by all, will be true neither
 603 Intro|               any true growth is more doubtful. It begins to assume the
 604  Thea|             fall with you, and do not drag me into the gymnasium.~SOCRATES:
 605  Thea|         caught upon the line, and are dragged different ways by the two
 606 Intro|            the fray; both parties are dragging us to their side; and we
 607  Thea|                The combination of the draught of wine, and the Socrates
 608 Intro|              is shown in his power of drawing distinctions, and of foreseeing
 609  Thea|               to argue that madmen or dreamers think truly, when they imagine,
 610 Intro|        self-interest. Human nature is dried up; there is no place left
 611 Intro|               of speech finds out the dried-up channel.~e. ‘Consciousness’
 612 Intro|               in later life either we drift back into common sense,
 613 Intro|             modern times we have also drifted so far away from Aristotle,
 614  Thea|            the water of the clepsydra driving him on, and not allowing
 615 Intro|          Phaedo, Parmenides), is then dropped. No further use is made
 616  Thea|               they will overflow, and drown the original argument; to
 617  Thea|              sensations, such as hot, dry, sweet, are only such as
 618  Thea|             judge of the sweetness or dryness of the vintage which is
 619  Thea|            sides of a question; whose dulness cannot be convinced, and
 620  Thea|              an admixture of earth or dung in their composition, have
 621 Intro|              of Not-being should be a dusky, half-lighted place (Republic),
 622  Thea|          always in motion; but as for dwelling upon an argument or a question,
 623 Intro|              the army at Corinth in a dying state. The expectation of
 624  Thea|               dialectician will be in earnest, and only correct his adversary
 625 Intro|           echo of some voice from the East, have been alien to the
 626 Intro|               first an effort is made easy by the natural instrumentality
 627 Intro|            this as well as we can. We eat before we know the nature
 628 Intro|               point of view. Of these eccentric thinkers there have been
 629 Intro|               way to the dicastery or ecclesia; they neither see nor hear
 630 Intro|       philosophy, which seem like the echo of some voice from the East,
 631 Intro|             For the completion of the edifice, he makes preparation in
 632 Intro|          language, which is the great educator of mankind, is wanting in
 633 Intro|           philosopher. In the mode of effecting it, while agreeing with
 634 Intro|              may be compared with the egkekalummenos (‘obvelatus’) of Eubulides.
 635  Thea|               must not instigate your elders to a breach of faith, but
 636 Intro|             is the enumeration of the elementary parts of the complex whole.
 637 Intro|              perpetually enlarged and elevated, and the use of many words
 638  Thea|              and we hear and know the elevation or depression of the sound
 639  Thea|                but shall endeavour to elicit something from our young
 640  Thea|               Socrates, that you have elicited from me a good deal more
 641      | elsewhere
 642 Intro|      consciousness of the human race, embodied in language, acknowledged
 643  Thea|              fit they can smother the embryo in the womb.~THEAETETUS:
 644 Intro|           cannot pursue the mind into embryology: we can only trace how,
 645  Thea|               right, considering your eminence in geometry and in other
 646  Thea|            Sunian, who was himself an eminent man, and such another as
 647 Intro|               on the strength of some emotion with which it is inseparably
 648 Intro|               Socrates, speaking with emphasis, ‘leaves to grow’) between
 649  Thea|              as though we could still employ them when deprived of knowledge
 650  Thea|               of men in their several employments, who are looking for teachers
 651 Intro|              use of terms. Yet he too employs a similar sophistical skill
 652 Intro|              hills, who soar into the empyrean. Like a bird in a cage,
 653  Thea|           which the state thought and enacted to be good that these, while
 654  Thea|            maintain, that what a city enacts in the belief that it is
 655 Intro|        escaped one difficulty only to encounter a greater? For how can the
 656  Thea|              as I said before, not to encourage yourself in this polemical
 657  Thea|             not tell you until I have endeavoured to consider the matter from
 658 Intro|              nearly connected. But in endeavouring to trace the nature of the
 659  Thea|          opposition, the soul herself endeavours to decide for us by the
 660 Intro|               confounded. The mind is endued with faculties, habits,
 661  Thea|         whether you will or not, must endure to be a measure. On these
 662  Thea|               of Heracleitus are most energetic upholders of the doctrine.~
 663 Intro|             antecedent, or any mental energy from its nervous expression.~
 664  Thea|          adversary standing over him, enforcing his rights; the indictment,
 665 Intro|              date is indicated by the engagement in which Theaetetus is said
 666 Intro|             after impossibilities, to enjoy to-day with just so much
 667 Intro|               arise from intellectual enlightenment, nor yet from the exertion
 668 Intro|             not allow ourselves to be enslaved by them. Instead of seeking
 669  Thea|         heterodoxy’ and false opinion ensues.~THEAETETUS: Yes, Socrates,
 670 Intro|             own point of view. But he entangles him in the meshes of a more
 671 Intro|     multitudinous principle of atoms, entered into the composition of
 672 Intro|           middle one of those who are entering the palaestra.’~Socrates,
 673 Intro|              which most of us rather ‘entertain conjecture’ than arrive
 674 Intro|            grows full of interest and enthusiasm about the great question.
 675 Intro|        subjects of knowledge of which enthusiastic persons have made a lifelong
 676 Intro|           another spirit, the work of enthusiasts and idealists, of apostles
 677 Intro|            either, as a self-existent entity apart from the ideas which
 678  Thea|               to get home: although I entreated and advised him to remain,
 679 Intro|               although Theaetetus has enumerated several kinds of knowledge,
 680 Intro|     individual and separated from the environment of circumstances, is a fiction
 681  Thea|            and while you were lost in envy and admiration of his wisdom,
 682 Intro|              in all.’ E pollaplasion, eoe, to ergon e os nun zeteitai
 683 Intro|             disputed the Isthmus with Epaminondas, would make the age of Theaetetus
 684 Intro|              and Heracleitus with his Ephesian successors, and has then
 685 Intro|           alone remained. The ancient Epicureans never asked whether the
 686 Intro|             more.~The philosophies of Epicurus or Hume give no adequate
 687 Intro|            for the introduction of an episode in a poem, or of a topic
 688 Intro|               toiauten omologian pote epistemen genesthai; Plato Republic.~
 689  Thea|      diminution of anything, but only equality.~THEAETETUS: Quite true.~
 690 Intro|            lower kind of happiness or equanimity. They have possessed their
 691 Intro|              logou ousia). This seems equivalent to saying, that the individuals
 692 Intro|               E pollaplasion, eoe, to ergon e os nun zeteitai prostatteis.~
 693  Thea|          using the word the object is escaping in the flux?~SOCRATES: And
 694 Intro|       adunaton. Soph.~Since the above essay first appeared, many books
 695  Thea|           that in all these cases the esse-percipi theory appears to be unmistakably
 696  Thea|               to one another, and the essential nature of this opposition,
 697 Intro|             of nominalism ‘La science est une langue bien faite.’
 698 Intro|             between these he seeks to establish by an argument, which to
 699 Intro|         shaken the old, they have not established the new; their views of
 700 Intro|              up to manhood, and is or esteems himself to be a master of
 701  Thea|                There are two patterns eternally set before them; the one
 702 Intro|              in our minds the idea of eternity, which at first, like time
 703 Intro|            similar difficulty: in his etymologies, as in the number of the
 704 Intro|       egkekalummenos (‘obvelatus’) of Eubulides. For he who sees with one
 705  Thea|             he hears a tyrant or king eulogized, he fancies that he is listening
 706 Intro|           that case the hearer of the eulogy ought to examine into what
 707 Intro|             been alien to the mind of Europe.~d. The Psychology which
 708  Thea|              eteron: compare Parmen.; Euthyd.)). I mean to say, that
 709 Intro|           great ‘brainless brothers,’ Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, and may
 710 Intro|               the dialogue, as in the Euthyphro, he is expecting to meet
 711 Intro|            consciousness’ are equally evanescent; they are facts which nobody
 712 Intro|         Association is another of the ever-present phenomena of the human mind.
 713 Intro|            may all be regarded as the ever-varying phases or aspects or differences
 714  Thea|               you could only persuade everybody, Socrates, as you do me,
 715 Intro|           proceeds. Socrates takes an evident delight in ‘the wise Theaetetus,’
 716  Thea|                as they suppose, which evil-doers often escape, but a penalty
 717 Intro|              teleute de kai ta metaxu ex ou me oide sumpeplektai,
 718 Intro|              is standing over him and exacting his rights. He is a servant
 719 Intro|       continuous. Its sphere has been exaggerated. It is sometimes said to
 720 Intro|            not increase the wonder by exaggerating it.~k. The love of system
 721  Thea|               my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which
 722 Intro|               On the condition of not exceeding a single fall, I consent.’~
 723  Thea|          almost unrivalled, and he is exceedingly gentle, and also the most
 724  Thea|              as he said were the wise excelled others.~THEODORUS: Very
 725  Thea|               SOCRATES: You follow me excellently, Theaetetus; that is precisely
 726 Intro|             It should argue, not from exceptional, but from ordinary phenomena.
 727 Intro|            consciousness, or, when in excess, self-consciousness: (f)
 728 Intro|             interest has been already excited about him by his approaching
 729 Intro|              them can lay claim to an exclusive probability in its favour.~
 730 Intro|             are certain that heredity exercises a considerable, but undefined
 731 Intro|         certain, (a) of the influence exerted by the mind over the body
 732 Intro|              a youthful Socrates, and exhibits the same contrast of the
 733  Thea|               Socrates, after such an exhortation I should be ashamed of not
 734  Thea|               and not allowing him to expatiate at will: and there is his
 735 Intro|         Corinth in a dying state. The expectation of his death recalls the
 736 Intro|        Physical Science and has great expectations from its near relationship
 737 Intro|               in the Euthyphro, he is expecting to meet Meletus at the porch
 738 Intro|              of feelings which we are experiencing. Like space, it is without
 739 Intro|         further by Aristotle, and the explicit declaration, that the mind
 740  Thea|           reared in any case, and not exposed? or will you bear to see
 741 Intro|               a magnificent effect by expounding to us that he was no wiser
 742 Intro|               of ironical admiration, expresses his inability to attain
 743  Thea|              must be intelligible and expressible, since all the parts are
 744 Intro|        slightly differing in form and exquisitely graduated by distance, which
 745 Intro|          conceptions of knowledge are extracted from Theaetetus, who in
 746 Intro|                they are not pushed to extremes; they stop where the human
 747  Thea|                of which they were not eye-witnesses, while a little water is
 748 Intro|        however, that this was only a “facon de parler,” by which he
 749 Intro|        language has been the greatest factor in the formation of human
 750 Intro|              inward sense is only the fading away or imperfect realization
 751 Intro|             do we make mistakes?’ The failure of the enquiry seems to
 752 Intro|               numerical harmonies are faint; either the secret of them
 753  Thea|           receive them in a spirit of fairness. And now I shall say nothing
 754 Intro|           science est une langue bien faite.’ But anybody who is not
 755  Thea|            your elders to a breach of faith, but should prepare to answer
 756 Intro|     discovered that his appeal to the fallibility of sense was really an illusion.
 757  Thea|           which the good or expedient falls. That whole class has to
 758 Intro|            sense of inveterate errors familiarized by language, yet it may
 759 Intro|            will be the better for not fancying that you know what you do
 760 Intro|               of this he is to make a far-sighted calculation;—he is to be
 761  Thea|              your work more after the fashion of Antaeus: you will not
 762 Intro|              of motions, a slow and a fast; the motions of the agent
 763  Thea|              spared in you and me the faults which I have noted. But,
 764  Thea|           which may or may not have a favourable issue; but as we are in
 765 Intro|               And the contrast is the favourite antithesis between the world,
 766  Thea|      inexperience. His awkwardness is fearful, and gives the impression
 767 Intro|               child round the hearth, fearing that Theaetetus will bite
 768  Thea|             independence; dangers and fears, which were too much for
 769  Thea|              come pouring in upon our feast of discourse, if we let
 770 Intro|            power of reflection is not feebler than the faculty of sense,
 771  Thea|          tadpole, not to speak of his fellow-men—would not this have produced
 772 Intro|               to him; long ago he has felt the ‘pang of philosophy,’
 773 Intro|             it may be necessary, is a fertile source of error. The division
 774 Intro|          complexity of structure, the fertility of illustration, the shifting
 775 Intro|       societies, whether political or festive, clubs, and singing maidens
 776  Thea|              own statement and in the fewest words possible, the basis
 777 Intro|             vague and indefinite. The field of consciousness is never
 778  Thea|        fortune made him, and he had a fiftieth, and so on? He amuses himself
 779  Thea|                compel me to strip and fight, I was talking nonsense—
 780  Thea|               we made a sort of waxen figment in the mind, so let us now
 781 Intro|               figures of speech. They fill up the vacancy of knowledge;
 782 Intro|              Like a youth, he has not finally made up his mind, and is
 783  Thea|              their arguments together finely. But you and I, who have
 784  Thea|             attend, and I will try to finish the story. The purport is
 785 Intro|           true proportions. Hence the firmer ground of Psychology is
 786 Intro|             the same subject.~(b) The fixedness of impressions of sense
 787 Intro|               only presents us with a flat and impenetrable surface:
 788  Thea|         shrewd; he has learned how to flatter his master in word and indulge
 789 Intro|             to make a bed, or cook up flatteries; the other, a serviceable
 790 Intro|         shrewd; he learns the arts of flattery, and is perfect in the practice
 791 Intro|          philosophy, soon discovers a flaw in the explanation. For
 792 Intro|              early thinkers, amid the fleetings of sensible objects, ideas
 793 Intro|             pen in which he keeps his flock in the mountains is surrounded
 794  Thea|               all sorts of birds—some flocking together apart from the
 795 Intro|         implied in the birds, some in flocks, some solitary, which fly
 796 Intro|             own, like the growth of a flower, a tree, a human being.
 797  Thea|           opinion in the stream which flows from the lips, as in a mirror
 798 Intro|             later generation amid the fluctuation of philosophical opinions
 799  Thea|            you yourself, or any other follower of Protagoras, would contend
 800  Thea|              creature is a man who is fond of talking!~THEAETETUS:
 801  Thea|            evil communications, being fonder of lies and shams than of
 802  Thea|              that to the sick man his food appears to be and is bitter,
 803  Thea|          learn of them, and no longer foolishly imagine that some things
 804  Thea|               Protagoras was just now forcing upon me, whether I would
 805  Thea|              not hear the language of foreigners when they speak to us? or
 806 Intro|               by a boy, who could not foresee the coming move, and therefore
 807 Intro|          drawing distinctions, and of foreseeing the consequences of his
 808 Intro|           through the darkness of the forest.~(2) These fragments, although
 809 Intro|              to-day with just so much forethought as is necessary to provide
 810  Thea|              uninformed, and speedily forgets whatever she has learned?~
 811 Intro|           modern inductive philosophy forgot to enquire into the meaning
 812 Intro|            the greatest factor in the formation of human thought, we must
 813 Intro|        already ‘won from the void and formless infinite,’ seemed to be
 814 Intro|           they should degenerate into formulas. A difficult philosophical
 815 Intro|               Theaetetus at his death forty-five or forty-six. This a little
 816 Intro|               his death forty-five or forty-six. This a little impairs the
 817 Intro|        accidental introduction of the founder of the Megarian philosophy.
 818 Intro|        usually comprehended under it; fourthly, of the form which facts
 819 Intro|              thought is complete. The framework of the human intellect is
 820 Intro|         sophistical doctrines, is the frankness with which they are avowed,
 821 Intro|               are in the midst of the fray; both parties are dragging
 822  Thea|           personal attractions, I may freely say, that in all my acquaintance,
 823 Intro|               us in proportion to the frequency of their recurrence or the
 824 Intro|            Protagoras before him, and frequently refers to the book. He seems
 825 Intro|          courage in the Laches, or of friendship in the Lysis, or of temperance
 826  Thea|               said No, because he was frightened, and could not see what
 827  Thea|           Euclid and Terpsion meet in front of Euclid’s house in Megara;
 828 Intro|                for those who reap the fruit are most likely to know
 829  Thea|         cultivates and gathers in the fruits of the earth, will be most
 830 Intro|             the senses are enabled to fulfil their functions. It traces
 831 Intro|          death he is supposed to be a full-grown man. Allowing nine or ten
 832  Thea|             my boys; I think that you fully justify the praises of Theodorus,
 833 Intro|       discoveries which move mankind, furnish the larger moulds or outlines
 834 Intro|           compared with that which is furnished by the mind!~Again: the
 835 Intro|               of impressions of sense furnishes a link of connexion between
 836 Intro|          confound one with the other.~g. That the progress of Physiology
 837 Intro|            declaration, that the mind gains her conceptions of Being,
 838  Thea|            own stupidity and tiresome garrulity; for what other term will
 839  Thea|              wonder. He was not a bad genealogist who said that Iris (the
 840  Thea|           when they come together and generate sensations and their objects,
 841 Intro|               of the evil habit which generates in him an evil opinion.
 842  Thea|             to the argument in a more generous spirit; and either show,
 843 Intro|              omologian pote epistemen genesthai; Plato Republic.~Monon gar
 844  Thea|            enquiry; and he is full of gentleness, flowing on silently like
 845  Thea|               soberer and humbler and gentler to other men, and will be
 846  Thea|              a wind-egg or a real and genuine birth. Therefore, keep up
 847 Intro|             the logical definition by genus and difference. But this,
 848  Thea|          whether there are any rising geometricians or philosophers in that
 849 Intro|            views of Herbart and other German philosophers, partly independent
 850 Intro|          depart; but you are like the giant Antaeus, and will not let
 851  Thea|              more pugnacious than the giants of old, for I have met with
 852 Intro|               the little wretch turns giddy, and is ready to fall over
 853  Thea|              was his equal in natural gifts: for he has a quickness
 854 Intro|             and look at itself in the glass. The great, if not the only
 855 Intro|            here and there only does a gleam of light come through the
 856 Intro|            glance. Yet there may be a glimpse round the corner, or a thought
 857 Intro|              rate in succession. Such glimpses will hardly enable us to
 858 Intro|              At the other end of the ‘globus intellectualis,’ nearest,
 859  Thea|          others are being praised and glorified, in the simplicity of his
 860  Thea|          helped himself in a far more gloriose style.~THEODORUS: You are
 861  Thea|              appeared to me to have a glorious depth of mind. And I am
 862  Thea|            roguery is clever; for men glory in their shame—they fancy
 863  Thea|              of Euripides, Hippol.: e gloss omomoch e de thren anomotos.)~
 864  Thea|           said to be that Artemis—the goddess of childbirth—is not a mother,
 865  Thea|               I strongly urge, is the golden chain in Homer, by which
 866 Intro|                for I am acting out of good-will towards you; the God who
 867  Thea|         appear and are to a man, into goods which are and appear to
 868  Thea|            perceive that I acted from goodwill, not knowing that no god
 869 Intro|             Dialectic or Metaphysic’ (Gorg.).~In this postscript or
 870  Thea|             empty; whenever a man has gotten and detained in the enclosure
 871  Thea|               to the consideration of government, and of human happiness
 872  Thea|         marrying some one, and by the grace of God I can generally tell
 873 Intro|         perceived. They are veiled in graceful language; they are not pushed
 874  Thea|          SOCRATES: In the name of the Graces, what an almighty wise man
 875 Intro|              except colour, including gradations of light and shade. From
 876 Intro|              we are able to trace the gradual developement of ideas through
 877 Intro|               in form and exquisitely graduated by distance, which we are
 878  Thea|            sets about numbering, or a grammarian about reading? Shall we
 879  Thea|             grammarians and to give a grammatical account of the name of Theaetetus,
 880  Thea|               is to know.~THEAETETUS: Granted.~SOCRATES: And further,
 881 Intro|         higher aspect of his being he grasps the ideas of God, freedom
 882  Thea|              Nevertheless, I shall be grateful to you if you assist him.~
 883  Thea|             in some other aviaries or graven on waxen blocks according
 884 Intro|               generally recognized in Greece, but was really discovered
 885  Thea|             the shaggy and rugged and gritty, or those who have an admixture
 886 Intro|              not on very satisfactory grounds, that knowledge must be
 887 Intro|             the imagination, is still grovelling on the level of sense.~We
 888  Thea|            were beaten in a race by a grown-up man, who was a great runner—
 889 Intro|     introduced Theaetetus, and having guaranteed the authenticity of the
 890  Thea|            orphan child; and even the guardians whom he left, and of whom
 891  Thea|               you, Protagoras, better guess which arguments in a court
 892  Thea|               a better judge than the guest, who is not a cook, of the
 893  Thea|              of sight by the unbidden guests who will come pouring in
 894 Intro|         whether probability is a safe guide. Theodorus would be a bad
 895 Intro|             our knowledge of them the gulf remains the same: no microscope
 896 Intro|          Monon gar auto legeiv, osper gumnon kai aperemomenon apo ton
 897  Thea|               do not drag me into the gymnasium.~SOCRATES: Your will is
 898 Intro|            with little or no success.~h. The impossibility of distinguishing
 899 Intro|             is endued with faculties, habits, instincts, and a personality
 900 Intro|             get confused. But in the ‘hairy heart,’ as the all-wise
 901 Intro|          Not-being should be a dusky, half-lighted place (Republic), belonging
 902  Thea|           becomes,’ we shall not then hamper them with words expressive
 903 Intro|     inheritance of thoughts and ideas handed down by tradition, ‘the
 904  Thea|              twelve which are seen or handled, but that no similar mistake
 905  Thea|             the clever witty Thracian handmaid is said to have made about
 906  Thea|           laughed at, not by Thracian handmaidens or any other uneducated
 907  Thea|            jest, not only of Thracian handmaids but of the general herd,
 908  Thea|             the height at which he is hanging, whence he looks down into
 909 Intro|      reflection naturally arises, How happy are they who, like the philosopher,
 910  Thea|           young and old, you meet and harangue, and bring in the gods,
 911  Thea|               sizes in different men; harder, moister, and having more
 912  Thea|             no one had any longer the hardihood to contend of any ordinances
 913  Thea|              perhaps there will be no harm in retracing our steps and
 914 Intro|         indications of such numerical harmonies are faint; either the secret
 915  Thea|               answer at once, I shall hazard the reply, that they are
 916 Intro|              could penetrate into the heads of animals we should probably
 917 Intro|               of us, in that case the hearer of the eulogy ought to examine
 918  Thea|               pig, and you teach your hearers to make sport of my writings
 919  Thea|               long as the sun and the heavens go round in their orbits,
 920 Intro|              like his great successor Hegel, has both aspects. The Eleatic
 921 Intro|      recipient of impressions—not the heir of all the ages, or connected
 922 Intro|          deeply impressed the mind of Hellas, were now degenerating into
 923  Thea|               poor, kings and slaves, Hellenes and barbarians, innumerable.
 924  Thea|           fades away, and they become helpless as children. These however
 925 Intro|            which is presented to him. Henceforward all the operations of his
 926 Intro|            absolute negation in which Heracliteanism was sunk in the age of Plato.
 927 Intro|               based upon the views of Herbart and other German philosophers,
 928 Intro|              his divine mission, his ‘Herculean labours,’ of which he has
 929 Intro|              my complaint. And many a Hercules, many a Theseus mighty in
 930 Intro|               wind-eggs, asserting an hereditary right to the occupation.
 931  Thea|               have met with no end of heroes; many a Heracles, many a
 932 Intro|         Homeric poems, or even in the Hesiodic cosmogony, there is no more
 933  Thea|            Assuredly not. Or would he hesitate to acknowledge that the
 934  Thea|                and not in your former hesitating strain, for if we are bold
 935 Intro|        moulded to a certain extent by hierophants and philosophers. (See Introd.
 936  Thea|            to-day I heard some people highly praising his behaviour in
 937 Intro|             them, who see the distant hills, who soar into the empyrean.
 938 Intro|               it. It equally tends to hinder the other great source of
 939 Intro|     remarkable as affording the first hint of universal all-pervading
 940  Thea|         well-known line of Euripides, Hippol.: e gloss omomoch e de thren
 941  Thea|            rather Callias, the son of Hipponicus, is guardian of his orphans.
 942  Thea|               noise, as of the tongue hissing; B, and most other letters,
 943 Intro|              them, just as the modern historian of ancient philosophy might
 944 Intro|            which may be traced in the histories of religions and philosophies
 945  Thea|               THEODORUS: I will. Come hither, Theaetetus, and sit by
 946 Intro|          described in the language of Hobbes, as ‘decaying sense,’ an
 947 Intro|              sees the forms of truth, holiness and love, and is satisfied
 948 Intro|               last example speaks ‘ad hominen.’ For Protagoras would never
 949 Intro|          devised by Socrates for his ‘homo mensura,’ which Theodorus
 950  Thea|           these speculations sweet as honey? And do you not like the
 951  Thea|       affirming that just and unjust, honourable and disgraceful, holy and
 952  Thea|              is not a mother, and she honours those who are like herself;
 953 Intro|            use of a word. He had once hoped that by getting rid of the
 954 Intro|        equally difficult to them; and hopelessly confused by the attempt
 955  Thea|        Socrates to an argument—invite horsemen to the open plain; do but
 956  Thea|             mean five or seven men or horses, but five or seven in the
 957  Thea|             heaven, of necessity they hover around the mortal nature,
 958 Intro|            them; yet they were always hovering about the question involved
 959 Intro|               towards perfection, ‘it hovers about this lower world and
 960 Intro|               Socrates, to adopt this humaner method, and to avoid captious
 961  Thea|               suppose that we must be humble, and allow the argument
 962  Thea|               you will be soberer and humbler and gentler to other men,
 963 Intro|              perfection of style, the humour, the dramatic interest,
 964 Intro|          hypothesis which, unlike the hypotheses of Physics, can never be
 965 Intro|               work of enthusiasts and idealists, of apostles and martyrs.
 966 Intro|           knowing you both, I fail to identify the impression and the object.
 967 Intro|             having a sort of personal identity in which they coexist.~So
 968  Thea|               seems to be a downright idiot. When he hears a tyrant
 969  Thea|              listening to the talk of idiots.~THEODORUS: Very true, Socrates.~
 970  Thea|             habit spoiled by rest and idleness, but preserved for a long
 971  Thea|               brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.
 972  Thea|             be well paid, and we poor ignoramuses have to go to him, if each
 973  Thea|          great man is of necessity as ill-mannered and uneducated as any shepherd—
 974 Intro|               materialism receives an illusive aid from language; and both
 975 Intro|          relation with the Apology as illustrating the personal life of Socrates.
 976  Thea|           voice with verbs and nouns, imaging an opinion in the stream
 977  Thea|               gives the impression of imbecility. When he is reviled, he
 978 Intro|           some other minute points is imitated by Cicero (De Amicitia),
 979  Thea|           which is now stirring is of immense extent, and will be treated
 980 Intro|             ideas of God, freedom and immortality; he sees the forms of truth,
 981  Thea|              aright which is lived by immortals or men blessed of heaven.~
 982  Thea|            party which would move the immovable, to them. And if I find
 983 Intro|             to us are the type of the immutable into the subjective side
 984  Thea|      stillness and the like waste and impair, while wind and storm preserve;
 985 Intro|              forty-six. This a little impairs the beauty of Socrates’
 986 Intro|           thing to which we ourselves impart a notion already present
 987 Intro|             discovered by the few and imparted to the many. They are to
 988 Intro|              aims and of the power of imparting and communicating them to
 989 Intro|               the entanglements which impede the natural course of human
 990 Intro|                arises only out of the imperfection or variation of the human
 991  Thea|              and injustice, piety and impiety, they are confident that
 992 Intro|            customary use of words has implanted in us. To avoid error as
 993  Thea|              the art of making wooden implements?~THEAETETUS: I do.~SOCRATES:
 994  Thea|             has an opinion, the state imposes all laws with a view to
 995  Thea|        cowards and betray a great and imposing theory.~THEAETETUS: No,
 996 Intro|             not to be straining after impossibilities, to enjoy to-day with just
 997  Thea|             remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts;
 998  Thea|              is knowing. When you are imprisoned in a well, as the saying
 999  Thea|            not the soul informed, and improved, and preserved by study
1000  Thea|               no one will be found to impugn him. Do not be shy then,