Dialogue

1 Intro|   Timaeus as the centre of his system. We do not know how Plato
2 Intro|      gathers up into a kind of system the various elements of
3 Intro|      first God in the Platonic system, who has sometimes been
4 Intro|      opposite poles of Plato’s system, we find that, like Spinoza,
5 Intro|       of them with his general system.~There is no principle so
6 Intro|   great influence in promoting system and assisting enquiry, while
7 Intro|  thoughts to be collected in a system. There is a common spirit
8 Intro|        earth the centre of his system. Philolaus magnifies the
9 Timae| representation of the heavenly system would be labour in vain.