Dialogue

 1 Intro|    ideal and actual—the soul is prior to the body, the intelligible
 2 Intro|        view of the heavens in a prior state of being. The ideas
 3 Intro|     bodies; what principles are prior to these God only knows,
 4 Intro|        worse diseases which are prior to these; as when the bone
 5 Intro|    creation, a world of thought prior to the world of sense, which
 6 Intro|        the idea of the world is prior to the world, just as the
 7 Intro|     just as the other ideas are prior to sensible objects; and
 8 Intro|       as the spinal marrow, are prior to the bones and flesh.
 9 Intro|       soul is said by him to be prior to the body, yet we cannot
10 Intro|      first turbid flux of sense prior to the establishment of
11 Intro|   conscious mind or person—were prior to them, and could alone
12 Intro| choosing his own lot in a state prior to birth—a conception which,
13 Timae|        in origin and excellence prior to and older than the body,
14 Timae|        earth, such as they were prior to the creation of the heaven,
15 Timae|        the principles which are prior to these God only knows,
16 Timae|     severe, still worse are the prior disorders; as when the bone