Dialogue

 1 Intro|       one immortal and the two mortal souls of man, on the functions
 2 Intro|      me, then:—Three tribes of mortal beings have still to be
 3 Intro|       shall weave together the mortal and immortal, and provide
 4 Intro|     nature of flesh and of the mortal soul; and as we cannot treat
 5 Intro|  offspring the creation of the mortal. From him they received
 6 Intro|  within another soul which was mortal, and subject to terrible
 7 Intro|  divine element, they gave the mortal soul a separate habitation
 8 Intro|      to anchors, fastening the mortal soul, he proceeded to make
 9 Intro| imitation of divine harmony in mortal motions. Streams flow, lightnings
10 Intro|      desires and cherishes the mortal soul, has all his ideas
11 Intro|        soul, has all his ideas mortal, and is himself mortal in
12 Intro|   ideas mortal, and is himself mortal in the truest sense. But
13 Intro|        world received animals, mortal and immortal, and was fulfilled
14 Intro|  Secondly, there is the higher mortal soul which, though liable
15 Timae|       are the judges, are only mortal men, and we ought to accept
16 Timae|  instructions:—Three tribes of mortal beings remain to be created—
17 Timae|    order then that they may be mortal, and that this universe
18 Timae|      do ye then interweave the mortal with the immortal, and make
19 Timae|        the fashioning of their mortal bodies, and desired them
20 Timae|    over them, and to pilot the mortal animal in the best and wisest
21 Timae|        immortal principle of a mortal creature, in imitation of
22 Timae|        soul, when encased in a mortal body, now, as in the beginning,
23 Timae|        be given by the gods to mortal man. This is the greatest
24 Timae|      part of the soul which is mortal. And these things cannot
25 Timae|      greatest pleasure, to the mortal part of the soul, as is
26 Timae|      itself all other animals, mortal and immortal. Now of the
27 Timae|        but the creation of the mortal he committed to his offspring.
28 Timae|    they proceeded to fashion a mortal body, and made it to be
29 Timae|       another nature which was mortal, subject to terrible and
30 Timae|  unavoidable, they gave to the mortal nature a separate habitation
31 Timae|       thorax, they encased the mortal soul; and as the one part
32 Timae|      soul, as to which part is mortal and which divine, and how
33 Timae|       destroy us, and lest our mortal race should perish without
34 Timae|      contain the remaining and mortal part of the soul he distributed
35 Timae|       parts and members of the mortal animal had come together,
36 Timae|    time ceasing so long as the mortal being holds together. This
37 Timae| imitation of divine harmony in mortal motions. Moreover, as to
38 Timae|       all his thoughts must be mortal, and, as far as it is possible
39 Timae|        become such, he must be mortal every whit, because he has
40 Timae|   because he has cherished his mortal part. But he who has been
41 Timae|    world has received animals, mortal and immortal, and is fulfilled