Dialogue

   1 Intro|                 especially of the number 10 (Stob. Eclog.), and descants
   2 Intro|               remarks, it is composed of 12 x 30 = 360 scalene triangles (
   3 Intro|             proportionals (e.g. 27:45:75:125). But to this explanation
   4 Timae|                  243:256::81/64:4/3::243/128:2::81/32:8/3::243/64:4::
   5 Intro|                and of a regular pyramid (20 = 8 x 2 + 4); and therefore,
   6 Timae|                 3::243/64:4::81/16:16/3::242/32:8.).~And thus the whole
   7 Intro|                   it is composed of 12 x 30 = 360 scalene triangles (
   8 Intro|                 is composed of 12 x 30 = 360 scalene triangles (Platon.
   9 Intro|              mean proportionals (e.g. 27:45:75:125). But to this explanation
  10 Intro|                proportionals (e.g. 27:45:75:125). But to this explanation
  11 Intro|               only show that the legend, 800 years after the time of
  12 Timae|               our sacred registers to be 8000 years old. As touching your
  13 Intro|                of the nineteenth century A.D.). The commentary is of little
  14 Timae|              shall we find another if we abandon this? We cannot, and therefore
  15 Intro|                 one; the tumult of sense abated, and the mind found repose
  16 Timae|               endeavour according to our ability gracefully to execute the
  17 Timae|                  however slight, spreads abroad the motion in a circle,
  18 Intro|                 The language is weighty, abrupt, and in some passages sublime.
  19 Intro|                  between them. He passes abruptly from persons to ideas and
  20 Timae|                  not willingly have been absent from this gathering.~SOCRATES:
  21 Intro|               began to be unfolded, more absorbing, more overpowering, more
  22 Intro|                 rid of matter or to find absorption in the divine nature, or
  23 Intro|                  is no kind or degree of absurdity or fancy in which the more
  24 Intro|                 the spinal marrow is too abundant, the body has too great
  25 Timae|                  of reason—all these are abundantly provided with flesh; but
  26 Intro|                   And he who, instead of accepting his destiny, endeavours
  27 Timae|            individual—barring inevitable accidents—comes into the world having
  28 Intro|              Tynnichus (Ion), obliged to accommodate his lyric raptures to the
  29 Timae|              reason of the tension which accompanies them. The cure of them is
  30 Timae|                  or ever will be able to accomplish either the one or the other
  31 Timae|                  as his ministers in the accomplishment of his work, but himself
  32 Intro|                  evil to physical causes accords with the doctrine which
  33 Intro|                hours, there is no way of accounting for the alternation of day
  34 Timae|                  irrational mob of later accretions, made up of fire and air
  35 Intro|               the Nile might have slowly accumulated in long periods of time (
  36 Intro|                not always require strict accuracy even in applications of
  37 Intro|                  but their ideas did not accurately represent the facts with
  38 Intro|                  investigations. When we accuse them of being under the
  39 Intro|                 in modern times, who are accused of making a theory first
  40 Intro|             history began with the youth Achilles and left off with the youth
  41 Timae|                the black part assumes an acidity which takes the place of
  42 Timae|           needing no other friendship or acquaintance. Having these purposes in
  43 Timae|            planted to be our daily food, acquire all sorts of colours by
  44 Timae|                 evil nature which he had acquired, and would not cease from
  45 Intro|              does not explain how man is acted upon by the lesser influences
  46 Intro|           created a greater intellectual activity and made a nearer approach
  47      | actually
  48 Timae|                 to fire, and the next in acuteness to air, and the third to
  49 Intro|          fastened together, not with the adamantine bonds which bound themselves,
  50 Intro|                  afterwards receiving an addition of air and water; because
  51 Intro|                  that they might form an additional link between the head and
  52 Intro|              will ever adopt. For, as he adds, with an insight into the
  53 Timae|                 surprised. Enough, if we adduce probabilities as likely
  54 Intro|              whole of nature without any adequate knowledge of the parts,
  55 Intro|               necessarily implied in its adherence to the cosmical axis. But (
  56 Intro|                   and it is difficult to adjust the balance between the
  57 Intro|              were a failure because they admire no subsequent progress.~
  58 Intro|         beginning of it?~While therefore admiring the diligence and erudition
  59 Intro|                no man of sense will ever adopt. For, as he adds, with an
  60 Intro|                 of being and of essence, adopting from old religion into philosophy
  61 Intro|               they seem to imply a great advance and almost maturity of natural
  62 Intro|                 cut them up. But as life advances, the triangles wear out
  63 Intro|                to themselves or to their adversaries the criterion of fact. They
  64 Intro|              their facts afterwards, the advocates of either opinion never
  65 Intro|                  of Spinoza, ‘sub specie aeternitatis,’ they were still at rest,
  66 Timae|                about himself and his own affairs.’ And for this reason it
  67 Timae|                vagaries. The same may be affirmed of speech and hearing: they
  68 Timae|               are also natural, and this affords a second opportunity of
  69 Intro|              below. This, however, is an after-stage—at present, we are only
  70 Intro|                the Timaeus suggests some after-thoughts which may be conveniently
  71 Timae|                only and by some external agency. Wherefore of all modes
  72 Timae|                them by medicine, he only aggravates and multiplies them. Wherefore
  73 Timae|                 is in a state of general agitation and effervescence, are said
  74 Timae|             always producing motions and agitations through its whole extent,
  75 Intro|                  which, while apparently agreeing with it, is in reality the
  76 Timae|            bringing her into harmony and agreement with herself; and rhythm
  77 Timae|                  within by reason of the air-bubbles, yet if it can communicate
  78 Timae|                   Wherefore they cut the air-channels leading to the lung, and
  79 Intro|                 one place, the light and airy ones in another. At first
  80 Intro|                mingled in the schools of Alexandria, and the Neo-Platonists
  81 Timae|              pleasure and pain—pain when alienated from their natural conditions,
  82 Intro|                 as were the internal and alimentary fluids, the tide became
  83 Timae|                 s art, or, better still, alive but at rest, is seized with
  84 Timae|               which are deficient in the alkaline quality, and which cleanse
  85 Intro|               things, he was made in the all-containing form of a sphere, round
  86 Timae|                  of something. Now it is all-important that the beginning of everything
  87 Intro|              generation when he made the all-sufficient and perfect creature, using
  88 Timae|                  opposite character, and allays the bile and bitterness
  89 Intro|            Scriptures, sought to give an allegorical meaning to what they also
  90 Intro|               the poems of Homer into an allegory of the Christian religion,
  91 Timae|                 power of respiration and alleviate the heat. Wherefore they
  92 Timae|            follow through every turn and alley, and thus allow the principle
  93 Intro|                  conception of necessity allied both to the regularity and
  94 Timae|               called copper. There is an alloy of earth mingled with it,
  95 Intro|             small additions. It does not allude to the original from which
  96 Timae|                  the soul, and to be our ally in bringing her into harmony
  97 Intro|                   and if he did not then alter his evil ways, into the
  98 Intro|                  come back upon us in an altered form. We can imagine two
  99 Intro|       disturbances of matter there is an alternative for the weaker element:
 100 Timae|               the cravings of desire and ambition, and is eagerly striving
 101      | amongst
 102 Intro|        world-animal reappear in man; its amorphous state continues in the child,
 103 Intro|               would have been infinitely amused if he could have known that
 104 Intro|                philosophers is really an anachronism. For they can hardly be
 105 Intro|              heavens by the most trivial analogies of earth. The experiments
 106 Intro|               nothing that reminds us of anatomical facts. But we find much
 107 Intro|                 the animals, was held by Anaximander in the sixth century before
 108 Timae|               now domesticated among us; anciently there were only the wild
 109 Intro|       probability at first, I will begin anew, seeking by the grace of
 110 Timae|              time, gets discontented and angry, and wandering in every
 111 Intro|                  contained, or the whole anima mundi, revolves.~The universe
 112 Intro|                them, creating in man one animate substance and in woman another
 113 Intro|                 in them, and had all the animosities of a religious sect. Yet,
 114 Intro|                  that even if space were annihilated time might still survive.
 115 Intro|               number and figure; (8) the annihilation of matter was denied by
 116 Timae|                  principle of mind, they announce the quality of the agent.
 117 Intro|                 Plato also speaks of an ‘annus magnus’ or cyclical year,
 118 Timae|                 follows it, and ever and anon moving to and fro, enters
 119 Intro|                supposed. All of them are antagonistic to sense and have an affinity
 120 Timae|                  when the motions of the antecedent swifter sounds begin to
 121 Intro|                  also more involved; the antecedents of demonstrative and relative
 122 Intro|                  man, and many traces of anthropomorphism blend with Plato’s highest
 123 Intro|                  of inspiration, to have anticipated the truth.~The influence
 124 Intro|               points Plato approaches or anticipates the discoveries of modern
 125      | anyhow
 126      | anywhere
 127 Intro|             words, although Alexander of Aphrodisias thinks that he could not
 128 Intro|                  such as Zeus, Poseidon, Apollo, Athene, are universals
 129 Timae|                reason the meaning of the apparitions which he has seen, and what
 130 Intro|              diet and exercise, he might appeal to nearly all the best physicians
 131 Intro|              Mercury, Venus, and the Sun appearing to overtake and be overtaken
 132 Intro|                 pain, but hunger and the appeasing of hunger are pleasant and
 133 Intro|                 the Laws he condemns the appellation as blasphemous.~The revolution
 134 Intro|                 adequately treated as an appendage to another. To sum up all
 135 Intro|                 reason against the lower appetites. The seat of this is the
 136 Intro|            mistaken, for these words are applicable only to becoming, and not
 137 Intro|                  strict accuracy even in applications of number and figure (Rep.).
 138 Timae|                reason it is customary to appoint interpreters to be judges
 139 Intro|                there is a greater use of apposition and more of repetition than
 140 Intro|                 their proper motion, and apprehend the same and the other rightly,
 141 Intro|                 there is a difficulty in apprehending how that which is at rest
 142 Intro|             notions are necessary to the apprehension of particular facts, the
 143 Intro|           Timaeus, I like your manner of approaching the subject—proceed.~TIMAEUS:
 144 Intro|          expressing his own opinions, or appropriating and perhaps improving the
 145 Intro|                  of his own actions,’ is approved by modern philosophy too.
 146 Intro|                 these speculations Plato approximated to the discoveries of modern
 147 Intro|                  the moon and the earth, approximates to Plato’s sphere of the
 148 Intro|               polyhedron, which from its approximation to a globe, and possibly
 149 Timae|            fishes and oysters, and other aquatic animals, which have received
 150 Timae|            language, and this will be an arduous task for many reasons, and
 151 Intro|                the reality of not-being (Aristot. Metaph.). But though in
 152 Intro|                  been in later ages born Aristotelians or Platonists. Like some
 153 Intro|                 deformities. A leg or an arm too long or too short is
 154 Intro|                 military divisions of an army, the civil divisions of
 155 Timae|                 them. All this order and arrangement the goddess first imparted
 156 Timae|          discourse. Here am I in festive array, and no man can be more
 157 Intro|             Egypt. This mighty power was arrayed against Egypt and Hellas
 158 Intro|                 There is a difficulty in arriving at an exact notion of this
 159 Intro|                 Like the romance of King Arthur, which has had so great
 160 Timae|                 to external bodies, like articles made of felt; and containing
 161 Timae|              others; next, there are the artificers, who ply their several crafts
 162 Intro|                resumptions and formal or artificial connections; we miss the ‘
 163 Intro|                 divided in the prism, or artificially manufactured for the painter’
 164 Intro|                  creator is like a human artist who frames in his mind a
 165 Intro|                  into the mouth; the one ascending by the air-pipes from the
 166 Intro|                 must give up the hope of ascertaining how they were imagined by
 167 Intro|              feeling. He is no mystic or ascetic; he is not seeking in vain
 168 Timae|              professors of medicine, who ascribe it to the opposite of the
 169 Intro|               the same interest which he ascribes to the mystery of being
 170 Timae|                  A man may sometimes set aside meditations about eternal
 171 Timae|                  assuming the name, I am asking a question which has to
 172 Intro|                when reason and sense are asleep. For the authors of our
 173 Intro|             imperfect knowledge and high aspirations, and is the growth of an
 174 Timae|             whichever they may severally assail, they create infinite varieties
 175 Intro|                so much danger; but if it assails those who are awake, then
 176 Timae|            Egyptian tongue Neith, and is asserted by them to be the same whom
 177 Intro|                  for physical science by asserting the supremacy of mathematics
 178 Intro|               simpler explanation, which assigns to bodies degrees of heaviness
 179 Intro|              fail to be ‘a most gracious assistance’ to the first efforts of
 180 Intro|                  in promoting system and assisting enquiry, while in others
 181 Intro|                midriff and the neck, and assists reason in restraining the
 182 Timae|               and best of created things associated with himself, when he made
 183 Intro|                  factious state, causing associating diarrhoeas and dysenteries
 184 Intro|           reproduced to modern eyes. The associations of mythology and poetry
 185 Intro|           haphazard fancies and a priori assumptions of ancient teachers, on
 186 Intro|                  space). But true reason assures us that while two things (
 187 Timae|                mind, and I remarked with astonishment how, by some mysterious
 188 Intro|            erring limbs or brain of man. Astrology was the form which the lively
 189 Timae|           Timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer amongst us, and has made
 190 Intro|                 reading a description of astronomical facts or contemplating processes
 191 Intro|                 appear wide as the poles asunder, because he finds nothing
 192 Intro|                 greater than that of any Atlas in the ‘Best’ (Phaedo; Arist.
 193 Intro|                 confused with a material atom? Have not the natures of
 194 Intro|             discussions arisen about the Atomic theory in which a point
 195 Timae|               which for this reason were attached to every man; and the gods,
 196 Intro|                child in the range of his attainments, but also a great intelligence
 197 Timae|              bone and unfermented flesh, attempered so as to be in a mean, and
 198 Intro|                 the like, the first rude attempts at generalization are dimly
 199 Timae|            country when he came home, to attend to other matters, in my
 200 Timae|                 both pains and pleasures attendant on them. Let us imagine
 201 Intro|                exceptional. Sight is not attended either by pleasure or pain,
 202 Intro|               there was a Nemesis always attending the prosperity of mortals.
 203 Timae|              certainly true, having been attested by Solon, who was the wisest
 204 Timae|                  wonderful phenomena are attributable to the combination of certain
 205 Intro|                   birds, fishes. And the attribution of evil to physical causes
 206 Intro|          everywhere insinuated’ in them (August. Confess.)~There is no danger
 207 Intro|              because it had nihil simile aut secundum, as say that Greek
 208 Intro|               existences, gives a solemn awe to them. And as in other
 209 Timae|               and often stumbles through awkwardness, and is the cause of infinite
 210 Timae|                  they let down along the backbone, so as to have the marrow
 211 Timae|                would take the impression badly, because it would intrude
 212 Intro|               latter part he treats in a bald and superficial manner of
 213 Intro|                of evil, and therefore he banishes him from an evil world.
 214 Timae|              more ready for the promised banquet.~HERMOCRATES: And we too,
 215 Intro|               philosophy which have been barren and unproductive? We might
 216 Timae|                only, but each individual—barring inevitable accidents—comes
 217 Intro|                  where he says that warm baths would be more beneficial
 218 Timae|                 they came across them in battle.~TIMAEUS: Exactly.~SOCRATES:
 219 Intro|             there imprisoned like a wild beast, far away from the council
 220 Timae|                  rife within, the heart, beating against a yielding body,
 221 Intro|                  without, then the heart beats and swells; and the creating
 222 Timae|               city and her citizens in a befitting manner, and I am not surprised
 223 Intro|           perfected.~When the Father who begat the world saw the image
 224 Timae|               the immortal, and make and beget living creatures, and give
 225 Intro|               would like to know how she behaved in some great struggle.
 226 Intro|               philosopher. He would have beheld the earth a surface only,
 227 Intro|                meaning to what they also believed to be an historical fact.
 228 Intro|                 warm baths would be more beneficial to the limbs of the aged
 229 Intro|                  genius of antiquity has bequeathed to us.~...~One more aspect
 230 Timae|                  the juice of the castor berry, oil itself, and other things
 231 Intro|                  speech and hearing were bestowed upon us; not for the sake
 232 Timae|               according to your natures, betake yourselves to the formation
 233 Timae|              were deprived of them would bewail his loss, but in vain. Thus
 234 Timae|                 will do precisely as you bid us. The prelude is charming,
 235 Timae|              mean would have sufficed to bind together itself and the
 236 Intro|                  way in which an ancient biographer dresses up the fact that
 237 Intro|            called Sais; the city was the birthplace of King Amasis, and is under
 238 Intro|               which is hard to decompose blackens from long burning, and from
 239 Timae|                 the kidneys and into the bladder, which receives and then
 240 Intro|                science of chemistry is a blank to him. It is only by an
 241 Intro|               traces of anthropomorphism blend with Plato’s highest flights
 242 Intro|           scientific truth imperceptibly blends, even with the cursory glance
 243 Intro|           philosophy, which is the great blessing of human life; not to speak
 244 Intro|              West; in the Islands of the Blest; before the entrance of
 245 Timae|                  death the liver becomes blind, and delivers oracles too
 246 Intro|              find discussed at length in Boeckh and Martin, we may now return
 247 Intro|            chiefly in Stobaeus, a few in Boethius and other writers. They
 248 Timae|               effervescence, are said to boil or ferment—of all these
 249 Timae|                  fibres by its heat, and boiling up throws them into disorder,
 250 Timae|                man. This is the greatest boon of sight: and of the lesser
 251 Intro|             Hellas and all the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. Then
 252 Intro|              time and all existence,’ to borrow once more his own grand
 253 Intro|                For the elements which he borrows from others are fused and
 254 Timae|               may be most truly called a boundless continent. Now in this island
 255 Timae|            formed the convolution of the bowels, so that the food might
 256 Timae|                 discharged in the air or bowled along the ground, are to
 257 Intro|               influence which any single branch, when pursued to the exclusion
 258 Timae|                  Sophists have plenty of brave words and fair conceits,
 259 Intro|        Mediterranean. Then your city did bravely, and won renown over the
 260 Intro|              narrative was known to him, break off almost at the beginning
 261 Intro|                 is an obstruction to the breathing, air can penetrate, but
 262 Timae|                 far as we could the best breed, we said that the chief
 263 Timae|                 who are said to be their brethren, and others who were the
 264 Timae|                 as the subject admits of brevity; in this manner our argument
 265 Intro|         intelligence, the ‘One in many,’ brighter than any Promethean fire (
 266 Timae|                 mind. As soon as the day broke, I rehearsed them as he
 267 Timae|         continually be changed into some brute who resembled him in the
 268 Intro|                to pass into it. Not only Buddhism, but Greek as well as Christian
 269 Intro|                He might be compared to a builder engaged in some great design,
 270 Intro|               edifice, but as a detached building in a different style, framed,
 271 Intro|                  he sees in them, but he builds upon the foundations of
 272 Timae|             other poets, made poetry the business of his life, and had completed
 273 Intro|               Aristotle or the writer De Caelo having adopted the other
 274 Timae|                  seashore. And from this calamity the Nile, who is our never-failing
 275 Timae|               future to those who cannot calculate their movements—to attempt
 276 Intro|                connections; we miss the ‘callida junctura’ of the earlier
 277 Timae|            should speak next, after duly calling upon the Gods.~TIMAEUS:
 278 Timae|                 the courses of the soul, calming down, go their own way and
 279 Intro|             about columns set up ‘by the Canaanites whom Joshua drove out’ (
 280 Intro|              themselves—it is a house of cards which we are pulling to
 281 Intro|               vagaries.’ Or let us weigh carefully some other profound thoughts,
 282 Timae|              wood is the material of the carpenter, let us revert in a few
 283 Timae|              enclosed it in a stone-like casing, inserting joints, and using
 284 Intro|                another of artisans; also castes of shepherds, hunters, and
 285 Timae|                  pitch, the juice of the castor berry, oil itself, and other
 286 Intro|         consistent with the mere passive causation of them, produced by the
 287 Intro|                the lesser nets and their cavities of air. The two latter he
 288 Intro|               the teacher of Simmias and Cebes, who became disciples of
 289 Timae|                  should never be able to celebrate the city and her citizens
 290 Intro|                 from time to time in the celebrated lines of Seneca and in many
 291 Intro|                  of the Laws he passes a censure on those who say that the
 292 Intro|                Martin may also be gently censured for citing without sufficient
 293 Timae|                  with any probability or certitude, which of them should be
 294 Timae|                  a wild animal which was chained up with man, and must be
 295 Intro|                far away from the council chamber, as Plato graphically calls
 296 Intro|            modern times. It is a curious chapter in the history of the human
 297 Intro|           surfaces become solids; and he characteristically ridicules Democritus for
 298 Intro|            hardly separable from it. The characteristics of man are transferred to
 299 Intro|               the Timaeus of Plato which characterizes the philosophical poem of
 300 Intro|                 subsequent progress.~The charge of premature generalization
 301 Intro|                 answering roughly to the charioteer and steeds of the Phaedrus,
 302 Intro|                 which has had so great a charm, it has found a way over
 303 Intro|                about medicine? As in the Charmides he tells us that the body
 304 Timae|               you bid us. The prelude is charming, and is already accepted
 305 Intro|                  such affinities and the chemical action of one body upon
 306 Timae|               every whit, because he has cherished his mortal part. But he
 307 Intro|         gratification of his desires and cherishes the mortal soul, has all
 308 Timae|           immortal; and since he is ever cherishing the divine power, and has
 309 Intro|              right to attribute to him a childish want of reasoning about
 310 Timae|                listened at the time with childlike interest to the old man’
 311 Intro|                 represents man as freely choosing his own lot in a state prior
 312 Intro|             particles of the blood which circulate in it. All the four elements
 313 Timae|               and hence the liquid which circulates in the body has a colour
 314 Timae|                  names are used, and the circumstances under which they are ordinarily
 315 Intro|                 it in Aristotle, nor any citation of an earlier writer by
 316 Intro|                the word (Greek). For the citations of Plato in Aristotle are
 317 Intro|              also be gently censured for citing without sufficient discrimination
 318 Intro|                  to you I turn, Timaeus, citizen of Locris, who are at once
 319 Intro|              acknowledge their claims to citizenship. ‘I see,’ replied Socrates, ‘
 320 Intro|        observation that there were other civilisations in the world more ancient
 321 Intro|             existed an ancient primitive civilization. It might find a place wherever
 322 Timae|                  the other requisites of civilized life, after the usual interval,
 323 Intro|              court and acknowledge their claims to citizenship. ‘I see,’
 324 Intro|              words which do not occur in classical Greek. No other indication
 325 Timae|              alkaline quality, and which cleanse only moderately, are called
 326 Intro|                  said more truly to have cleared up and defined by the help
 327 Intro|                it does not attain to the clearness of ideas. But like them
 328 Timae|            tissue, receives them all and clears them away, and when filled
 329 Intro|            goddess chose had the best of climates, and produced the wisest
 330 Intro|                   the particles of earth cling to their native element,
 331 Intro|                  his wings were suddenly clipped, he walks ungracefully and
 332 Intro|                 limbs, and also to avoid clogging the perceptions of the mind.
 333 Timae|              direction through the body, closes up the passages of the breath,
 334 Timae|                 and the flesh out of the clots which are formed when the
 335 Timae|                  and condensed, produces cloud and mist; and from these,
 336 Intro|                 we find the same sort of clumsiness in the Timaeus of Plato
 337 Timae|                 them, if they could have co-existed, and the human race, having
 338 Intro|           Promethean fire (Phil.), which co-existing with them and so forming
 339 Timae|                falls upon like, and they coalesce, and one body is formed
 340 Intro|              triangles, until at length, coalescing with the fire, it is at
 341 Intro|                Earth’) from Aristotle De Coelo, Book II (Greek) clearly
 342 Intro|          conception of chemistry and the cognate sciences. A very different
 343 Timae|                  how, by some mysterious coincidence, you agreed in almost every
 344 Intro|                or his disciples by their collections of facts. When the thinkers
 345 Timae|                any one met and came into collision with some external fire,
 346 Intro|         experiences of travellers and of colonists.~The various opinions respecting
 347 Intro|        perceptions. Nails were formed by combining sinew, skin, and bone, and
 348 Timae|               the other classes, and are commanded by the law to devote themselves
 349 Timae|                  Once more, then, at the commencement of my discourse, I call
 350 Intro|                   like Anaxagoras, while commencing his theory of the universe
 351 Intro|                 the senses to be briefly commented upon: (8) lastly, we may
 352 Intro|                  Timaeus the supreme God commissions the inferior deities to
 353 Intro|                retiring into himself and committing the lesser works of creation
 354 Timae|               air-bubbles, yet if it can communicate with the outside air, is
 355 Intro|           training of the guardians, the community of property and of women
 356 Intro|               the union of evenness with compactness, and of hardness with inequality.~
 357 Timae|                  cannot have a second or companion; in that case there would
 358 Intro|                   are brought within the compass of a short treatise. But
 359 Timae|               very evident that he could compel the smaller mass more readily
 360 Timae|              passing quickly through and compelling the body to require more
 361 Intro|                   symbolizing the law of compensation; are of the Fates and Furies,
 362 Intro|                  to the creation of man. Completeness seems to require that something
 363 Timae|               there is no excuse for not complying with your request. As soon
 364 Intro|                   in other words, we are composing and decomposing the faces
 365 Timae|               largest void left in their compositions, and those which are composed
 366 Intro|               the extension the less the comprehension. But this vacant idea of
 367 Intro|                  led also to a spirit of comprehensiveness in early philosophy, which
 368 Timae|         reckoning up the dates, tried to compute how many years ago the events
 369 Timae|              turned vertically, then the concavity makes the countenance appear
 370 Timae|                  of brave words and fair conceits, but I am afraid that being
 371 Intro|          bloodless; the spinal marrow he conceives to be the seed of generation;
 372 Timae|                  of the affections which concern the whole body remains to
 373 Timae|                 or reflecting on its own concerns. Wherefore it lives and
 374 Timae|               the same time.~Thus have I concisely given the result of my thoughts;
 375 Intro|              methods of difference or of concomitant variations, by the use of
 376 Intro|                 from the abstract to the concrete. We are searching into things
 377 Intro|                  order. Of the second or concurrent causes of sight I have already
 378 Timae|               position of one of the two concurring lights is reversed; and
 379 Intro|               seems to be extreme in his condemnation of medicine and to rely
 380 Intro|                  although in the Laws he condemns the appellation as blasphemous.~
 381 Intro|                  and forces together and condenses the liquid mass. This process
 382 Intro|                 the universe exercises a condensing power, and thrusts them
 383 Intro|               execution of his design to condescend to the crudest physics.~(
 384 Timae|            through the body as through a conduit.~Let us once more consider
 385 Timae|                 other task upon you. You conferred together and agreed to entertain
 386 Intro|             insinuated’ in them (August. Confess.)~There is no danger of
 387 Intro|             seeming probability, win the confidence of the reader. Who would
 388 Timae|                 and then only, can we be confident; still, we may venture to
 389 Timae|                   nor must we affirm too confidently that there can be no decision;
 390 Intro|            divided. The modern physicist confines himself to one or perhaps
 391 Intro|                 two cubes, perhaps again confining his attention to the two
 392 Timae|            around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth,
 393 Intro|                   He may be described as confusing the attraction of gravitation
 394 Timae|                are left alone, they soon congeal by reason of the surrounding
 395 Timae|              power of the fibres; and so congealing and made to cool, it produces
 396 Intro|              from fire and air, and then congeals into hail or ice, or the
 397 Intro|                   These are a few of the conjectures which philosophy forms,
 398 Timae|                of these deities in their conjunctions meet, and which of them
 399 Intro|                  or becomes one with its conqueror. And this tendency in bodies
 400 Intro|                figures, and were already consecrated by tradition. Hesiod and
 401 Intro|               and astronomy, he had made considerable proficiency, there were
 402 Timae|                 of her from the previous considerations, we may truly say that fire
 403 Timae|              since its life of necessity consisted of fire and breath, and
 404 Intro|                 that blood is a fluid in constant motion. He also knew that
 405 Timae|            entire framework of our body, constructing for the marrow, first of
 406 Intro|              participles and of absolute constructions gives the effect of heaviness.
 407 Intro|                  When in modern times we contemplate the heavens, a certain amount
 408 Intro|                referred to with a secret contempt and dislike. He looks with
 409 Intro|         apparatus of winds and waters is contemptuously rejected by him in the Phaedo,
 410 Timae|            courage and passion and loves contention they settled nearer the
 411 Intro|                  they still retain their contentious or controversial character,
 412 Intro|                  is thinking, not of the context in Plato, but of the contemporary
 413 Intro|          conception of mind or God. They continued to exist for the purposes
 414 Intro|                 found the containing and continuing principle of the universe.
 415 Timae|               out of its right place and contorting the lobe and closing and
 416 Timae|          produces colours like bile, and contracting every part makes it wrinkled
 417 Timae|                  to be caused by certain contractions and dilations, but they
 418 Timae|              unnaturally contracted, and contracts the parts which are relaxed,
 419 Intro|                   although not literally contradictory, is in spirit irreconcilable
 420 Intro|                 Although such a work can contribute little or nothing to the
 421 Timae|                  speech, whereto it most contributes. Moreover, so much of music
 422 Intro|                 and country; or that the contributions which they made to the sciences
 423 Timae|                and might join with it in controlling and restraining the desires
 424 Intro|              retain their contentious or controversial character, which was developed
 425 Timae|                  public, and strifes and controversies arise, inflames and dissolves
 426 Intro|             other evils. The violence of controversy, or the earnestness of enquiry,
 427 Intro|             grander and simpler than the conversation between Solon and the Egyptian
 428 Intro|                 he did he could not have conversed with Egyptian priests or
 429 Intro|                 here he first learnt, by conversing with the Egyptian priests,
 430 Intro|               one in our own day were to convert the poems of Homer into
 431 Timae|             sailing or any other mode of conveyance which is not fatiguing;
 432 Intro|                the uses of the nerves in conveying motion and sensation, which
 433 Intro|                  and form one body which conveys to the soul the motions
 434 Intro|               which Plato is more firmly convinced than of the priority of
 435 Timae|                and drink, and formed the convolution of the bowels, so that the
 436 Intro|                gluttony, they formed the convolutions of the intestines, in this
 437 Timae|                  body, that soul, I say, convulses and fills with disorders
 438 Timae|               apart; and to this war and convulsion the name of shivering and
 439 Timae|                much distressed and makes convulsive efforts, and often stumbles
 440 Timae|                 produced, accompanied by copious sweats. And oftentimes when
 441 Timae|                 the water which had been copiously mingled with them may occur
 442 Intro|               the verb of existence, the copula, the most general symbol
 443 Timae|                 used in the threshing of corn, the close and heavy particles
 444 Timae|                and their revolutions are corrected, and they call the same
 445 Intro|                  but rather a process of correcting by observation, and to a
 446 Timae|                  sweetness of the liver, corrects all things and makes them
 447 Intro|             contained in these fragments corresponded with their doctrines; and
 448 Intro|          discovered in them many curious correspondences and were disposed to find
 449 Timae|                and infinite diseases and corruptions. Now there is a second class
 450 Intro|                  The Hesiodic and Orphic cosmogonies were a phase of thought
 451 Intro|                 beast, far away from the council chamber, as Plato graphically
 452 Intro|            Pyrrha, and he endeavoured to count the generations which had
 453 Intro|                  alike. One, two, three, counted on the fingers was a ‘trivial
 454 Timae|                  the concavity makes the countenance appear to be all upside
 455 Intro|                  how ignorant he and his countrymen were of antiquity. Perceiving
 456 Intro|                  probably degenerate and cowardly men. And when they degenerated,
 457 Timae|                the world, those who were cowards or led unrighteous lives
 458 Timae|        artificers, who ply their several crafts by themselves and do not
 459 Intro|                  the story is said to be Crantor, a Stoic philosopher who
 460 Timae|                 always occupied with the cravings of desire and ambition,
 461 Timae|                  he made without feet to crawl upon the earth. The fourth
 462 Intro|                be wholly deprived of the credit of their guesses because
 463 Timae|                  invasion from Atlantis (Crit.).), receiving from the
 464 Intro|                 to their adversaries the criterion of fact. They were mastered
 465 Intro|               worthy of attention by the critic? How came the poem of Solon
 466 Intro|               creative is opposed to the critical or defining habit of mind
 467 Intro|               the Epicurean, he severely criticises.~The commentary of Proclus
 468 Timae|              that it might not, by being crowded and pressed and matted together,
 469 Timae|                natural affinity; and the crowns of their heads were elongated
 470 Intro|              design to condescend to the crudest physics.~(c) The morality
 471 Timae|                 substance thus corrupted crumbles away under the flesh and
 472 Intro|                  in Gulliver or Robinson Crusoe. On the other hand there
 473 Timae|                  then, let us assign the cubical form; for earth is the most
 474 Timae|                 which are older than the cultivated. For everything that partakes
 475 Intro|           knowledge. ‘Non in tempore sed cum tempore finxit Deus mundum,’
 476 Intro|                  that the body cannot be cured without the soul, so in
 477 Intro|                 capable of observing the curiosities of nature which are ‘tumbling
 478 Intro|             ancient writer is a literary curiosity worthy of remark), we may
 479 Intro|      imperceptibly blends, even with the cursory glance of an unscientific
 480 Intro|                the fixedness of Egyptian customs and the general observation
 481 Intro|             general; there is moreover a cycle or perfect year at the completion
 482 Intro|                 the most part ideal; the cyclic year serves as the connection
 483 Intro|                  of an ‘annus magnus’ or cyclical year, in which periods wonderful
 484 Intro|                   like a mist, seemed to darken the purity of truth in itself.—
 485 Intro|                be too much for the soul, darkening the reason, and quickening
 486 Intro|                 A shoot of gold which is darker and denser than the rest
 487 Intro|                 only see through a glass darkly. The passionate earnestness
 488 Timae|                 in a whirl cause them to dash against and enter into one
 489 Timae|        descendants, and reckoning up the dates, tried to compute how many
 490 Timae|             uniting with our body in the day-time; for cuttings and burnings
 491 Timae|               together when the blood is dead and in process of cooling,
 492 Timae|                drinking, and take a good deal more than was necessary
 493 Timae|              magnanimity of her words in dealing with other cities a result
 494 Timae|                 nature is the easiest of deaths, and is accompanied with
 495 Timae|                  old age and fulfils the debt of nature is the easiest
 496 Timae|             every animal is overcome and decays, and this affection is called
 497 Intro|                  of invention would have deceived M. Martin himself into the
 498 Timae|         confidently that there can be no decision; neither must we interpolate
 499 Timae|                   but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in
 500 Intro|                They had sprung up in the decline of the Eleatic philosophy