Dialogue

  1 Intro|         opening discourse of Timaeus may be compared with the more
  2 Intro|       Phaedrus.~To the same cause we may attribute the want of plan.
  3 Intro|         determine how Plato’s cosmos may be presented to the reader
  4 Intro|              shorter form; or how we may supply a thread of connexion
  5 Intro|       commented upon: (8) lastly, we may examine in what points Plato
  6 Intro|          city or house of their own, may through want of experience
  7 Intro|            which you were describing may be identified with the reality
  8 Intro|           our antediluvian ancestors may be your citizens. ‘That
  9 Intro|           special need of their aid. May my words be acceptable to
 10 Intro|              acceptable to them, and may I speak in the manner which
 11 Intro|            copy of something; and we may assume that words are akin
 12 Intro|          only men; to probability we may attain but no further.~SOCRATES:
 13 Intro|    indissoluble. That which is bound may be dissolved, but only an
 14 Intro|        motion becomes irregular. You may imagine a position of the
 15 Intro|               but as qualities. They may be compared to images made
 16 Intro|             The containing principle may be likened to a mother,
 17 Intro|            nature to a child; and we may also remark that the matter
 18 Intro|             the intelligible. But we may say, speaking generally,
 19 Intro|            sides (scalene). These we may fairly assume to be the
 20 Intro|             easily modelled of them, may be assigned the form of
 21 Intro|          time.~In the next place, we may observe that there are different
 22 Intro|          through plants. Of these we may mention, first, wine, which
 23 Intro|           together, in order that we may proceed at once to the sensations
 24 Intro|           the word of God. Still, we may venture to assert what is
 25 Intro|            passage of liquids, which may be explained in this way:—
 26 Intro|         place in order that the body may be watered and cooled and
 27 Intro|       violence is painful.~Every one may understand the origin of
 28 Intro|             origin of diseases. They may be occasioned by the disarrangement
 29 Intro|            other ignorance, and they may be justly attributed to
 30 Intro|          strong and impassioned soul may ‘fret the pigmy body to
 31 Intro|              in like manner the body may be too much for the soul,
 32 Intro|        became stationary or extinct, may we not observe also that
 33 Intro|             that there have been and may be again periods in the
 34 Intro|             generalized at all. They may be said more truly to have
 35 Intro|            the world of sense, which may be compared to the wisdom
 36 Intro|             which he is speaking.~We may remark in passing, that
 37 Intro|      sensible objects; and like them may be regarded as eternal and
 38 Intro|               like the IDEA of good, may be viewed apart from the
 39 Intro|             the eye of faith! And we may say that only by an effort
 40 Intro|      Philebus.~The soul of the world may also be conceived as the
 41 Intro|           principle of the same, and may be compared with the modern
 42 Intro|   mathematical laws and figures. (We may observe by the way, that
 43 Intro|            So far the words of Plato may perhaps find an intelligible
 44 Intro|           intelligible world...So we may perhaps venture to paraphrase
 45 Intro|           the world. The explanation may help to fill up with figures
 46 Intro|             heavenly bodies; and (3) may possibly contain an allusion
 47 Intro|           explanation of Martin’s it may be objected, (1) that Plato
 48 Intro|             in Boeckh and Martin, we may now return to the main argument:
 49 Intro|          them to themselves, that he may be guiltless of their faults
 50 Intro|             All the objections which may be urged against Kant’s
 51 Intro|               By such reflections we may conceive the Greek to have
 52 Intro|     triangles, but each of its faces may be regarded as composed
 53 Intro|            and days of the year, God may be said to have ‘used in
 54 Intro|             Laws). Yet perhaps Plato may regard these sides or faces
 55 Intro|           for the weaker element: it may escape to its kindred, or
 56 Intro|       densest, only a rarer: but air may become a denser or a rarer.
 57 Intro|      treating of sensation, but they may be more conveniently considered
 58 Intro|             doctrines of the Timaeus may be summed up as follows: (
 59 Intro|            relatively at rest; or we may conceive of them as resting,
 60 Intro|   twenty-four hours. The same remark may be applied to the complexity
 61 Intro|            explanations. A doubt (2) may also be raised as to whether
 62 Intro|              immobility. To which it may be replied that Plato never
 63 Intro|            him. On the other hand it may be urged that the further
 64 Intro|             other bodies are moving, may be truly said to act, equally
 65 Intro|            constitution, though they may be increased by bad education
 66 Intro|              which implies that they may be decreased by good education
 67 Intro|             that the animal passions may not interfere with the deliberations
 68 Intro|              intervals of time which may be observed in some intermittent
 69 Intro|             treatment of physicians. May we not claim for Plato an
 70 Intro| disproportion in the other. Here too may be a presentiment that in
 71 Intro|            of the one over the other may be exerted in a manner which
 72 Intro|              discovery. Some of them may seem old-fashioned, but
 73 Intro|              seem old-fashioned, but may nevertheless have had a
 74 Intro|           explained by them. Thus we may remark in passing that the
 75 Intro|              to a certain extent and may hereafter be of far more
 76 Intro|           were unable to prove them. May they not have had, like
 77 Intro|             world, and of this Plato may be thought to have had an
 78 Intro|              had an anticipation. He may be described as confusing
 79 Intro|            some after-thoughts which may be conveniently brought
 80 Intro|             comparatively slight. We may fill up the lacunae of the
 81 Intro|             Republic or Phaedrus: we may identify the same and other
 82 Intro|           Greek) of the Philebus. We may find in the Laws or in the
 83 Intro|           interstices of the Timaeus may also be compared with his (
 84 Intro|           time. These contradictions may be softened or concealed
 85 Intro|             language (Sophist) which may be compared with the hesitating
 86 Intro|            to tell us the origin. He may be said, in the language
 87 Intro|      curiosity worthy of remark), we may take occasion to correct
 88 Intro|            The ethics of the Timaeus may be summed up in the single
 89 Intro|              of another subject’ or ‘may be more suitably discussed
 90 Intro|          from an Egyptian source? It may be replied that there is
 91 Intro|              engraved. The statement may be false—there are similar
 92 Intro|            than Plato, and therefore may have borrowed it from him.
 93 Intro|            the internal evidence, we may remark that the story is
 94 Intro|             a poem by him. M. Martin may also be gently censured
 95 Intro|             of the early navigators, may be truly said to have contributed
 96 Intro|       generally agree, and therefore may be supposed to be derived
 97 Intro|     philosophy made up of words only may create a deep and widespread
 98 Intro|          forms of logic and rhetoric may usurp the place of reason
 99 Intro|         other dialogues of Plato, we may still gather a few flowers
100 Intro|             old man among you’—which may be compared to the lively
101 Timae|       habitations of their own, they may fail in their conception
102 Timae|      philosophers and statesmen, and may not know what they do and
103 Timae|              to Socrates, so that he may help us to judge whether
104 Timae|             and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless
105 Timae|              and pray that our words may be acceptable to them and
106 Timae|             copy and the original we may assume that words are akin
107 Timae|            is already accepted by us—may we beg of you to proceed
108 Timae|          language of probability, we may say that the world became
109 Timae|              when we are at leisure, may have the consideration which
110 Timae|              will. All that is bound may be undone, but only an evil
111 Timae|              In order then that they may be mortal, and that this
112 Timae|               and that this universe may be truly universal, do ye,
113 Timae|           our own vagaries. The same may be affirmed of speech and
114 Timae|            correct any discord which may have arisen in the courses
115 Timae|         questions about the elements may be fairly raised?~In the
116 Timae|             any of them, whatever it may be, is one thing rather
117 Timae|             is a resemblance. And we may liken the receiving principle
118 Timae|  intermediate nature to a child; and may remark further, that if
119 Timae|          previous considerations, we may truly say that fire is that
120 Timae|           can: and lastly, every man may be said to share in true
121 Timae|          shows that we are mistaken, may claim a friendly victory.
122 Timae|            or by air, on re-forming, may become one part fire and
123 Timae|              of probabilities. A man may sometimes set aside meditations
124 Timae|              Sometimes also moisture may remain, and the earth which
125 Timae|          copiously mingled with them may occur in two substances
126 Timae|            then, that the affections may follow regularly after the
127 Timae|            is hot; and about this we may reason from the dividing
128 Timae|           that fire is sharp; and we may further consider the fineness
129 Timae|            points is above or below, may he not be justly charged
130 Timae|             division of the heavens, may be elucidated by the following
131 Timae|              to tend upwards. And we may detect ourselves who are
132 Timae|              which it originates. We may in general assume sound
133 Timae|              creations. Wherefore we may distinguish two sorts of
134 Timae|             the other necessary, and may seek for the divine in all
135 Timae|           described in order that it may give prophetic intimations.
136 Timae|              be confident; still, we may venture to assert that what
137 Timae|           next in order, and this we may investigate in a similar
138 Timae|     everything that partakes of life may be truly called a living
139 Timae|            being watered and cooled, may receive nourishment and
140 Timae|              origin of this movement may be supposed to be as follows.
141 Timae|      triangles of each kind new, and may be compared to the keel
142 Timae|              makes all maladies that may occur more virulent than
143 Timae|              class of diseases which may be conceived of as arising
144 Timae|              in order that the blood may not be so liquefied by heat
145 Timae|             marrow and burns up what may be termed the cables of
146 Timae|           either of them, that state may be called disease; and excessive
147 Timae|             the soul, whichever they may severally assail, they create
148 Timae|           educated. But however that may be, we should endeavour
149 Timae|             the third sort of motion may be of use in a case of extreme
150 Timae|            the manner in which a man may train and be trained by
151 Timae|              an outline, the subject may not unfitly be summed up
152 Timae|           completed. A brief mention may be made of the generation
153 Timae|          then, the following remarks may be offered. Of the men who
154 Timae|             or led unrighteous lives may with reason be supposed
155 Timae|            gain wisdom and folly.~We may now say that our discourse