Dialogue

 1 Intro|   accept the traditions of the ancients, who were the children of
 2 Intro|        But upon the whole, the ancients, though not entirely dominated
 3 Intro|       by his own. No doubt the ancients often fell into strange
 4 Intro|       particles of matter. The ancients had not the instruments
 5 Intro|      this was expressed by the ancients in many ways, as fate, or
 6 Intro| external objects, which to the ancients were the four elements,
 7 Intro|       was already known to the ancients, and out of the surfaces
 8 Intro|   allows to the notions of the ancients the merit of being the stepping-stones
 9 Intro|     physical philosophy of the ancients as a whole; we should remember, (
10 Intro|       when we attribute to the ancients hasty generalizations and
11 Intro|       We recognize them in the ancients, but we fail to see them
12 Intro|   greatest ‘divination’ of the ancients was the supremacy which
13 Intro|     were no facts of which the ancients were so well assured by
14 Intro|        triangles of Plato? The ancients should not be wholly deprived
15 Intro|        physical science of the ancients was traditional, descending
16 Intro|      variously regarded by the ancients themselves. The stronger