Dialogue

 501 Intro|                 implies that they may be decreased by good education and good
 502 Intro|                the necessary and obvious deductions from geometrical figures
 503 Timae|                 every man; and the gods, deeming the front part of man to
 504 Intro|                 differs from them, he is deeply penetrated by the spirit
 505 Timae|                 extremity of danger, she defeated and triumphed over the invaders,
 506 Timae|                 need to take anything or defend himself against any one,
 507 Timae|               artisans from the class of defenders of the State?~TIMAEUS: Yes.~
 508 Intro|                  error from which we are defending Plato.~After weighing one
 509 Timae|                  the particles which are deficient in the alkaline quality,
 510 Intro|                  no use in attempting to define or explain the first God
 511 Intro|               opposed to the critical or defining habit of mind or time, has
 512 Intro|         uncertain. And there is least of definiteness, whenever either in describing
 513 Intro|              contrary is the greatest of deformities. A leg or an arm too long
 514 Intro|                  He who would study this degeneracy of philosophy and of the
 515 Intro|                  women, who are probably degenerate and cowardly men. And when
 516 Intro|              cowardly men. And when they degenerated, the gods implanted in men
 517 Intro|               may not interfere with the deliberations of reason. Though the soul
 518 Intro|                 and Swedish writers, who delighted in heaping up learning of
 519 Intro|         prosperity of mortals. But Plato delights to think of God as the author
 520 Intro|                   the composition of the deliquescent particles is congenial to
 521 Intro|                hasty generalizations and delusions of language, that physical
 522 Intro|             because he was good, and the demons ministered to him.’ The
 523 Intro|             involved; the antecedents of demonstrative and relative pronouns are
 524 Intro|               the Phaedrus. (Compare his denial of the ‘blasphemous opinion’
 525 Intro|                as in the Sophist he also denies the reality of not-being (
 526 Timae|                 them, ought not to be so denominated. Let me make another attempt
 527 Intro|                In his treatise De Natura Deorum, he also refers to the Timaeus,
 528 Intro|               seldom rises above his own department, and often falls under the
 529 Timae|                  has retreated; and this departure of the fire is called cooling,
 530 Intro|                 aware that musical notes depended on the relative length or
 531 Intro|                to be reconciled with his dependence on natural causes. And sometimes,
 532 Timae|                better—not that I mean to depreciate them; but every one can
 533 Intro|               the greatest diseases, and deprive men of their senses. When
 534 Timae|                the most part of his life deranged, because his pleasures and
 535 Intro|               occurs at long intervals a derangement of the heavenly bodies,
 536 Intro|           permanent value:—~1. Did Plato derive the legend of Atlantis from
 537 Intro|            number 10 (Stob. Eclog.), and descants upon odd and even numbers,
 538 Timae|            traced the genealogy of their descendants, and reckoning up the dates,
 539 Timae|                  and your whole city are descended from a small seed or remnant
 540 Intro|                ancients was traditional, descending through many generations
 541 Intro|                are the forms in which he describes the works which no tongue
 542 Intro|                 effect of heaviness. The descriptive portion of the Timaeus retains
 543 Intro|              when the other Hellenes had deserted her, she repelled the invader,
 544 Timae|             dissimilar things one nature deserving of a name, has assigned
 545 Timae|               state of being, he did not desist from evil, he would continually
 546 Timae|              dissolves the particles and destroys the uniformity, it has greater
 547 Timae|                  and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of
 548 Intro|       anticipations, are supplemented by desultory remarks on the one immortal
 549 Intro|             element, and you more easily detach a small portion than a large.
 550 Intro|                 of the edifice, but as a detached building in a different
 551 Intro|                 he cannot get rid of, he detaches himself from them and leaves
 552 Intro|            greater or less difficulty in detaching any element from its like
 553 Intro|                 documents and examine in detail the exact truth about these
 554 Intro|               the further explanation of details, which the reader will find
 555 Timae|               and water, and too wide to detain fire and air; and for this
 556 Timae|                 tend upwards. And we may detect ourselves who are upon the
 557 Intro|                which is the principle of determination.) The element of the same
 558 Intro|           tempore sed cum tempore finxit Deus mundum,’ says St. Augustine,
 559 Intro|                  of mathematics, or more devious paths suggested by the analogy
 560 Timae|                 the triangles rest their diagonals and shorter sides on the
 561 Intro|                  is written in the Doric dialect, and contains several words
 562 Intro|                  by a divine instinct, a dialectical enthusiasm, in which the
 563 Timae|            survivors of that destruction died, leaving no written word.
 564 Timae|             answers to the swifter as it dies away, thus producing a single
 565 Intro|                  and to rely too much on diet and exercise, he might appeal
 566 Intro|                  of God to the world was differently conceived by him at different
 567 Intro|                  impersonal Good or God, differing in form rather than in substance,
 568 Timae|            threatening and invading, and diffusing this bitter element swiftly
 569 Intro|                   and his purpose is the diffusion of that goodness or good
 570 Intro|             great design, who could only dig with his hands because he
 571 Timae|                 present long discourse a digression equally long, but if it
 572 Timae|                 certain contractions and dilations, but they have besides more
 573 Intro|             While therefore admiring the diligence and erudition of M. Martin,
 574 Intro|                 to have arisen the first dim perception of (Greek) or
 575 Intro|              their attraction are always diminishing the substance of the body:
 576 Timae|                although their minds were directed toward heaven, imagined,
 577 Timae|              them which has a guiding or directing power; and if again any
 578 Timae|                   no one should suffer a disadvantage at his hands; they were
 579 Intro|                 of them, and the seeming disappearance of it held to be a transformation
 580 Intro|              then the world of phenomena disappears, but the doctrine of ideas
 581 Intro|                 may be occasioned by the disarrangement or disproportion of the
 582 Intro|              beginnings of chemistry are discernible in the ‘similar particles’
 583 Intro|                  senses are incapable of discerning and which can hardly be
 584 Timae|               When bile finds a means of discharge, it boils up and sends forth
 585 Timae|            projection of bodies, whether discharged in the air or bowled along
 586 Timae|               includes the various daily discharges by which the body is purified.
 587 Timae|                 is less severe, and only discolours the body, generating leprous
 588 Timae|             beyond its proper time, gets discontented and angry, and wandering
 589 Timae|              Thus our original design of discoursing about the universe down
 590 Intro|                 ultra-Megarianism, which discovers contradictions in the one
 591 Intro|                 in Plato’s own mind, the discrepancy between the Timaeus and
 592 Intro|                citing without sufficient discrimination ancient authors having very
 593 Intro|             every creature.’ Nor need we discuss at length how far Plato
 594 Intro|              political problems which he discusses in the Republic and the
 595 Intro|                 and facts. Have not many discussions arisen about the Atomic
 596 Intro|         imperfectly learns, that he must disengage himself from the influence
 597 Intro|                  is commonly regarded as disgraceful, whereas it is really involuntary
 598 Intro|               with a secret contempt and dislike. He looks with more favour
 599 Timae|                masterful, like an animal disobedient to reason, and maddened
 600 Intro|           following Bacon, undervalue or disparage the speculations of ancient
 601 Intro|          description of the world wholly dispense with it. The notion of first
 602 Timae|              When the lung, which is the dispenser of the air to the body,
 603 Intro|                  century B.C., after the dispersion of the original Pythagorean
 604 Intro|                air which is breathed out displacing other air which finds a
 605 Intro|                 the ignorance of anatomy displayed by the author, in showing
 606 Intro|               when a man has time at his disposal.~Enough of the nature of
 607 Intro|                true if body and soul are disproportionate. For a strong and impassioned
 608 Intro|              which would either prove or disprove his theories. His knowledge
 609 Timae|                  be long to tell; he who disproves what we are saying, and
 610 Timae|                  again, when teaching or disputing in private or in public,
 611 Intro|            Martin has written a valuable dissertation on the opinions entertained
 612 Intro|              from the nearer to the more distant, from particulars to generalities,
 613 Intro|                  of necessity and hardly distinguishable from matter. The matter
 614 Intro|             corrode, and other parts are distorted by the excess of air; and
 615 Timae|                its way through the veins distorts them and decomposing the
 616 Timae|               its share of work, is much distressed and makes convulsive efforts,
 617 Timae|               the first solid form which distributes into equal and similar parts
 618 Timae|               making as little noise and disturbance as possible, and permitting
 619 Intro|              mingled with black bile, it disturbs the courses of the head
 620 Timae|               two parts grow old and are disunited, shows itself separately
 621 Timae|                were crushed by reason of disuse. And this was the reason
 622 Timae|                  consider that there are divers kinds of fire. There are,
 623 Timae|            classes of bodies as they are diversified by their forms and combinations
 624 Timae|                 those from the left they diverted towards the right, so that
 625 Timae|               wisdom for the sake of the diviner part of us—then, I say,
 626 Intro|         prescriptions of a not over-wise doctor). If he seems to be extreme
 627 Intro|                 will take up the written documents and examine in detail the
 628 Timae|                  cultivation and are now domesticated among us; anciently there
 629 Intro|            ancients, though not entirely dominated by them, were much more
 630 Intro|                  The element of the same dominates to a certain extent over
 631 Intro|            Timaeus. It is written in the Doric dialect, and contains several
 632 Intro|                of a religious sect. Yet, doubtless, there was some first impression
 633 Intro|                when water and earth fell downward, they were seeking their
 634 Timae|               violently from without and drag after them the whole vessel
 635 Timae|               the respiration, and a man draws in his breath by force,
 636 Intro|                 and final causes, and is dreaming of geometrical figures lost
 637 Timae|                nature, we have only this dreamlike sense, and we are unable
 638 Intro|              which an ancient biographer dresses up the fact that there was
 639 Timae|               because he was not able to drive them in the path of his
 640 Timae|                the body, entering in and driving out the lesser, but not
 641 Intro|                 who, being the friend of Dropidas my great-grandfather, told
 642 Timae|                 of my great-grandfather, Dropides, as he himself says in many
 643 Timae|               oiliest sort of triangles, dropping like dew from the bones
 644 Intro|                 divine. He takes away or drops the veil of mythology, and
 645 Intro|                  refiner’s fire, and the dross and other elements which
 646 Intro|                  of the worthlessness of drugs. For we ourselves are sceptical
 647 Intro|              apparent; there is the same dualism or opposition between the
 648 Intro|                glad to escape out of the dulness of the present into the
 649 Timae|                 turn; for it is more our duty to speak of the good than
 650 Timae|             places, carrying on high the dwelling-place of the most sacred and divine
 651 Timae|              that part which, as we say, dwells at the top of the body,
 652 Timae|                  nature of man; and when eager in the pursuit of some sort
 653 Timae|              desire and ambition, and is eagerly striving to satisfy them,
 654 Timae|                pain, in his unreasonable eagerness to attain the one and to
 655 Timae|                part. But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge
 656 Timae|              marvelled at his words, and earnestly requested the priests to
 657 Timae|                the debt of nature is the easiest of deaths, and is accompanied
 658 Intro|             wisdom of God in the book of Ecclesiasticus, or to the ‘God in the form
 659 Intro|            Timaeus. It is a composite or eclectic work of imagination, in
 660 Timae|                  when they are severally eclipsed to our sight and again reappear,
 661 Intro|                  second, the path of the ecliptic. The motion of the second
 662 Intro|                  features taken from the Edda, as well as from the Old
 663 Timae|                  the memory and dull the edge of intelligence. Wherefore
 664 Intro|                  or inmost shrine of the edifice, but as a detached building
 665 Timae|             common patron and parent and educator of both our cities. She
 666 Timae|                 of general agitation and effervescence, are said to boil or ferment—
 667 Intro|                 in the early part of the eighteenth century, when the human
 668 Intro|                 and Egypt older than the eighth or ninth century B.C. It
 669 Intro|               outside the body trying to eject the smaller ones in the
 670 Intro|            Instruments of such power and elasticity could not fail to be ‘a
 671 Intro|               case with the head and the elbows. Man, if his head had been
 672 Intro|               others, such as chemistry, electricity, mechanics, of which the
 673 Intro|              errors, but has also had an elevating influence on philosophy.
 674 Intro|               interpretation which could elicit any meaning out of any words.
 675 Timae|          division of the heavens, may be elucidated by the following supposition:—
 676 Intro|             successors of Plato,—for the elucidation of it.~More light is thrown
 677 Intro|                 Colours are flames which emanate from all bodies, having
 678 Timae|           colours, and are a flame which emanates from every sort of body,
 679 Timae|               flame; and secondly, those emanations of flame which do not burn
 680 Intro|                   in a few others he has embellished and exaggerated it. He generally
 681 Intro|              various manners he seeks to embody his conceptions. The clouds
 682 Intro|                 of unity in a work which embraces astronomy, theology, physiology,
 683 Timae|              respires a lively desire of emission, and thus creates in us
 684 Timae|                  the pressure of the air emits them, was so fashioned by
 685 Timae|                  which we are at present employing. Do not imagine, any more
 686 Timae|     replenishments, fail to perceive the emptying, but are sensible of the
 687 Timae|                 gradual withdrawings and emptyings of their nature, and great
 688 Intro|           knowledge of mathematics would enable men to correct.~We have
 689 Intro|                 rarity. It is this which enables fire and air to permeate
 690 Timae|                  liver happy and joyful, enabling it to pass the night in
 691 Timae|                crown of the head was not encircled by sinews; and also in order
 692 Timae|                  do it in excess, and so encroach as to consume some part
 693 Intro|              their hold over him. He was endeavouring to form a conception of
 694 Intro|                of accepting his destiny, endeavours to prolong his life by medicine,
 695 Intro|                  are intelligent natures endued with the power of self-motion,
 696 Timae|          never-ceasing and rational life enduring throughout all time. The
 697 Intro|                has the inherent force or energy to remain at rest when all
 698 Intro|                so purely abstract as the English word ‘space’ or the Latin ‘
 699 Intro|               the Island of Atlantis was engraved. The statement may be false—
 700 Intro|                  earth, water, which had engrossed her, and he regained his
 701 Intro|            faculties seemed to yearn for enlargement. We know that ‘being’ is
 702 Intro|                 and is ever going on and enlarging with the progress of science
 703 Intro|        Theaetetus and Republic, the same enmity to the poets, the same combination
 704 Intro|                  Greek was not, like the enquirer of the last generation,
 705 Timae|                  reflecting on all this, enquires whether the worlds are to
 706 Timae|                of time, and the power of enquiring about the nature of the
 707 Timae|             together by sinews, and then enshrouded them all in an upper covering
 708 Timae|         conferred together and agreed to entertain me to-day, as I had entertained
 709 Timae|                  guests and are to be my entertainers to-day?~TIMAEUS: He has
 710 Timae|               either his intelligence is enthralled in sleep, or he is demented
 711 Intro|                  given of the short work entitled ‘Timaeus Locrus,’ which
 712 Timae|              overtaken by each other. To enumerate the places which he assigned
 713 Intro|                  network of fire and air envelopes the greater part of the
 714 Timae|                  also to be the exterior environment of it; and he made the universe
 715 Intro|                 dangerous, and is called epilepsy or the sacred disease. Acid
 716 Intro|               two kinds of triangles the equal-sided has but one form, the unequal-sided
 717 Intro|                he attributes to a law of equalization in nature, the air which
 718 Timae|                  to the other parts, and equalize the irrigation. In the next
 719 Intro|              number, i.e. a number which equals the sum of its factors,
 720 Intro|               describing the path of the equator, the second, the path of
 721 Timae|           shields and spears, a style of equipment which the goddess taught
 722 Intro|                  in the view of Plato is equivalent to truth or law, and need
 723 Intro|                 of any word which had an equivocal or double sense.~Yet without
 724 Intro|               centuries of the Christian era, and is not wholly extinct
 725 Intro|             vaster conceptions of Chaos, Erebus, Aether, Night, and the
 726 Intro|               through want of experience err in their conception of philosophers
 727 Intro|               graces of speech, in their erratic way of life having never
 728 Intro|           explained their nature, and we erroneously maintain them to be the
 729 Intro|               admiring the diligence and erudition of M. Martin, we cannot
 730 Timae|                 body, generating leprous eruptions and similar diseases. When
 731 Intro|               hardly be imagined to have escaped him. On the other hand it
 732 Intro|         originated in a few verses of II Esdras, it has become famous, because
 733 Intro|                  the accidental from the essential. He could not isolate phenomena,
 734 Intro|          concerning the soul can only be established by the word of God. Still,
 735 Timae|               first imparted to you when establishing your city; and she chose
 736 Intro|               flux of sense prior to the establishment of order; the intervals
 737 Intro|          universe, is one of the highest ethical motives of which man is
 738 Timae|                 process of repletion and evacuation is effected after the manner
 739 Intro|            napkin does a mirror, and the evacuations of the liver are received
 740 Timae|            putrefying, or liquefying, or evaporating, and are perceptible only
 741 Intro|                 a state of transition or evaporation; he also makes the subtle
 742 Intro|                 produced by the union of evenness with compactness, and of
 743 Timae|              divine and eternal animals, ever-abiding and revolving after the
 744 Intro|                  could never change. The ever-present image of space is transferred
 745 Timae|           substance akin to the light of every-day life; and the pure fire
 746 Intro|                and children are known to everybody.~When all of them, both
 747 Intro|                  the forms of atoms, the evolution and recurrence of days,
 748 Intro|                legend of the Ten Tribes (Ewald, Hist. of Isr.), which perhaps
 749 Timae|                  be best understood when examined in connexion with our notions
 750 Timae|                  kinds of means, the one exceeding and exceeded by equal parts
 751 Timae|               four forms of bodies which excel in beauty, and then we shall
 752 Timae|               and still better ones, and excelled all mankind in all virtue,
 753 Intro|                the children of the gods, excelling all men in virtue, and many
 754 Intro|            conscious to us when they are exceptional. Sight is not attended either
 755 Intro|               that of law interrupted by exceptions,—a somewhat unfortunate
 756 Intro|              they are only harsh, and if excessively abstergent, like potash
 757 Timae|                 of the motion which they excite in us. For when the motions
 758 Timae|              danger and the swelling and excitement of passion was caused by
 759 Intro|              branch, when pursued to the exclusion of every other, has over
 760 Intro|              philosopher is apt to dwell exclusively on the absurdities of ancient
 761 Timae|              enthusiasm; and there is no excuse for not complying with your
 762 Timae|                our ability gracefully to execute the task which you have
 763 Intro|                 his mind a plan which he executes by the help of his servants.
 764 Timae|                  dilation, in the sight, exercising a power akin to that of
 765 Intro|                all three dialogues he is exerting his dramatic and imitative
 766 Intro|                to it. And this theory is exhibited in so many different points
 767 Intro|                  his instrument which he exhibits in the Phaedrus or Symposium.
 768 Timae|                  Gods, to which I add an exhortation of myself to speak in such
 769 Intro|             bodily frame, and yet we are exhorted to avoid it and pursue virtue.
 770 Timae|                 the bodily organs, truly existent, and nothing whatever besides
 771 Timae|            element; and as there are two exits for the heat, the one out
 772 Timae|                class of substances which expand the contracted parts of
 773 Intro|           imperceptible. Neither must we expect to find in him absolute
 774 Timae|          palpitation of the heart in the expectation of danger and the swelling
 775 Intro|             which the modern philosopher expects to find them, and to those
 776 Timae|                 which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe
 777 Intro|                of the world is unable to expel, and of which Plato cannot
 778 Intro|              holds out, then the bile is expelled, like an exile from a factious
 779 Intro|                ancient philosopher never experimented: in the Timaeus Plato seems
 780 Intro|              else to be like himself and explains every other age by his own.
 781 Intro|                  is described, even more explicitly than in the Timaeus, not
 782 Intro|                  But the memory of their exploits has passed away owing to
 783 Timae|         intellect and knowledge ought to explore causes of intelligent nature
 784 Timae|           unaware that they are only the expositors of dark sayings and visions,
 785 Intro|               far as they illustrate the extravagances of which men are capable.
 786 Timae|                  liquefied by heat as to exude from the pores of the body,
 787 Intro|                  tale of Atlantis is the fabric of a vision, but it has
 788 Timae|               all three natures, and was fabricated by these second causes,
 789 Timae|              compelled, by reason of the factions and troubles which he found
 790 Intro|           expelled, like an exile from a factious state, causing associating
 791 Intro|           enthusiasm, in which the human faculties seemed to yearn for enlargement.
 792 Intro|                how all philosophies grow faded and discoloured, and are
 793 Intro|              blood is separated from the faeces.~Of the anatomy and functions
 794 Intro|                  both, the track becomes fainter and we can only follow him
 795 Intro|              only, not mirrored, however faintly, in the glass of science,
 796 Intro|            original. The version is very faithful, and is a remarkable monument
 797 Intro|                  whole this little tract faithfully reflects the meaning and
 798 Intro|               them. Like the Heraclitean fanatics whom Plato has ridiculed
 799 Intro|               the author, in showing the fancifulness or unmeaningness of some
 800 Timae|                  to the unchangeable and fashions the form and nature of his
 801 Timae|                 form a bond which should fasten the head to the body, since
 802 Timae|               the lesser orbit revolving faster, and those which had the
 803 Intro|                he combines idealism with fatalism.~The soul of man is divided
 804 Intro|                 compensation; are of the Fates and Furies, typifying the
 805 Intro|                or the world, in whom the Fathers of the Church seemed to
 806 Timae|                  conveyance which is not fatiguing; the third sort of motion
 807 Intro|                may be guiltless of their faults and sufferings.~Between
 808 Intro|               external nature. And now a favourite speculation of modern chemistry
 809 Intro|              what they have seen. And he fears that the Sophists, who are
 810 Intro|                such narratives contained features taken from the Edda, as
 811 Intro|         connected with it might still be fed with air. The cavity of
 812 Intro|             opposed to him. They are the feeble expression of an age which
 813 Intro|             found in the Timaeus, is the feebleness of the human intellect—‘
 814 Intro|           analogous reason, partaking so feebly of existence as to be hardly
 815 Timae|                  that he might be always feeding at the manger, and have
 816 Intro|                  liquid, which boils and ferments, the other of pure and transparent
 817 Intro|                the woman; this is like a fertile field in which the seed
 818 Timae|               unclean matter, swells and festers, but, again, when the body
 819 Timae|                  discourse. Here am I in festive array, and no man can be
 820 Intro|              ears of an animal. Even the fetichism of the savage is the beginning
 821 Intro|            observed in some intermittent fevers correspond to the density
 822 Intro|           inspired the navigators of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries;
 823 Timae|               breath rising together and filling the veins by drawing up
 824 Timae|                  in the structure of the finger, there arises a triple compound,
 825 Intro|               two, three, counted on the fingers was a ‘trivial matter (Rep.),
 826 Intro|                  tempore sed cum tempore finxit Deus mundum,’ says St. Augustine,
 827 Timae|              wherefore the sinews have a firmer and more glutinous nature
 828 Intro|                 seemed to recognize ‘the firstborn of every creature.’ Nor
 829 Timae|                 more honourable and more fit to command than the hinder
 830 Intro|             hereafter speak.~Colours are flames which emanate from all bodies,
 831 Intro|              body came into contact with flaming fire, or the solid earth,
 832 Intro|                motion of light. A sudden flash of fire at once elicits
 833 Intro|             circle of the heavens and it flashed upon him that all things
 834 Timae|                and it exists ever as the fleeting shadow of some other, must
 835 Intro|                  flesh—the first to give flexibility, the second to guard against
 836 Timae|                  four limbs extended and flexible; these God contrived to
 837 Intro|               blend with Plato’s highest flights of idealism. The heavenly
 838 Timae|              where it was most likely to flourish, and in order that the stream
 839 Intro|          resisting the impressions which flowed in upon it. He hardly allows
 840 Intro|                we may still gather a few flowers and present them at parting
 841 Intro|                 the tetrachord or of the flute.~The Hesiodic and Orphic
 842 Timae|                 out of the generation of foam—all this decomposition of
 843 Intro|          philosophy of Aristotle and his followers. But besides the material
 844 Timae|                  lose or gain wisdom and folly.~We may now say that our
 845 Timae|                to the wisdom, but to the foolishness of man. No man, when in
 846 Intro|                 their motions his erring footsteps. But we neither appreciate
 847 Timae|                around the mass of earth, forcibly compresses it and drives
 848 Timae|                bones of the arms and the forearms, and other parts which have
 849 Timae|               all of them. But the gods, foreknowing that the palpitation of
 850 Intro|             kindred earth, and put their forelegs to the ground, and their
 851 Intro|               terrified if he could have foreseen the endless fancies to which
 852 Intro|                  sixteenth centuries; it foreshadowed the discovery of America.
 853 Intro|                   like the leaves of the forest, come and go, but the mathematical
 854 Intro|               inscribed, not, like other forgeries, in books, but on stone.
 855 Timae|               soul dull, and stupid, and forgetful, engender ignorance, which
 856 Intro|                  of the five. He perhaps forgets that he is only putting
 857 Timae|            should be much surprised if I forgot any of these things which
 858 Intro|                entrance to the latter is forked or divided into two passages
 859 Intro|                 appears to him to be the form-fairer and truer far—of mathematical
 860 Intro|           beginnings and resumptions and formal or artificial connections;
 861 Intro|           previously existing chaos. The formula of Anaxagoras—‘all things
 862 Intro|             nearly verified in fact. The fortunate guess that the world is
 863 Timae|                of that which we call the foster-mother and nurse of the universe,
 864 Timae|                 is only purged away in a four-fold period, the result is a
 865 Intro|               and so produces sweetness; fourthly, vegetable acid, which is
 866 Intro|             intervals of thirds, 3:2, of fourths, 4:3, and of ninths, 9:8.
 867 Intro|               for example in the case of fractions, they protested against
 868 Timae|              fastening limb to limb. The framers of us framed the mouth,
 869 Intro|                  like a human artist who frames in his mind a plan which
 870 Timae|                which reason, when he was framing the universe, he put intelligence
 871 Intro|            confusion about necessity and free-will, and about the state of
 872 Timae|                 all things, because they freeze and heat, and contract and
 873 Intro|            ponderous industry of certain French and Swedish writers, who
 874 Intro|                  perplexing. The greater frequency of participles and of absolute
 875 Timae|                into water—in this way by frequent transfers from one to the
 876 Intro|                in the shape of food. The freshest and acutest forms of triangles
 877 Timae|                 soft and delicate, being freshly formed of marrow and nurtured
 878 Intro|                and impassioned soul may ‘fret the pigmy body to decay,’
 879 Timae|                 of theirs they had their front-legs and their heads resting
 880 Timae|               race should perish without fulfilling its end— intending to provide
 881 Timae|                  the universe requires a fuller division than the former;
 882 Intro|               mind and body will be more fully recognized, and that the
 883 Intro|       compensation; are of the Fates and Furies, typifying the fixed order
 884 Timae|              bodies, and desired them to furnish what was still lacking to
 885 Timae|             parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had
 886 Timae|              them, such as glass and the fusible sort of stones, have less
 887 Timae|                  makes the most complete fusion of itself and the things
 888 Timae|                 necessity, and be always gaining or losing some part of their
 889 Timae|             manner by food and drink but gains bulk from opposite sources
 890 Intro|               elements of bitterness and gall, and a suffusion of bilious
 891 Intro|              made up again like worn-out garments, and retain only a second-hand
 892 Timae|               have been absent from this gathering.~SOCRATES: Then, if he is
 893 Intro|              Plato, without naming them, gathers up into a kind of system
 894 Intro|             distant, from particulars to generalities, from the earth to the stars.
 895 Intro|               can hardly be said to have generalized at all. They may be said
 896 Intro|              were not the rash and hasty generalizers which, since the days of
 897 Intro|        over-mastered by the power of the generative organs, and the woman is
 898 Intro|               and gladly recognizes the ‘generous depth’ of Parmenides (Theaet.).~
 899 Timae|                  not yet subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of
 900 Intro|                  either in favour of the genuineness of the fragments, with Bockh
 901 Intro|           considered—the mythological or geographical. Is it not a wonderful thing
 902 Intro|             retains in the chaos certain germs or traces of the elements.
 903 Timae|                 motions of the stronger, getting the better and increasing
 904 Intro|                 was inspired by the Holy Ghost, or had received his wisdom
 905 Intro|               entrance of the Straits of Gibraltar, in Sweden or in Palestine.
 906 Intro|                could have known that his gift of invention would have
 907 Timae|                  the guardians should be gifted with a temperament in a
 908 Intro|               minds. To the like end the gifts of speech and hearing were
 909 Intro|                them with reluctance, and gladly recognizes the ‘generous
 910 Intro|            blends, even with the cursory glance of an unscientific person.
 911 Intro|              occurred to him. For he has glimpses of the truth, but no comprehensive
 912 Timae|              bright and shining and of a glistening appearance, including pitch,
 913 Timae|                  in kind, and has both a glittering and a yellow colour. A shoot
 914 Intro|              earth and air, two kinds of globules are formed—one of earthy
 915 Intro|                which they were to be the glory. Two kinds of motion were
 916 Timae|               circle round the neck, and glued them together by the principle
 917 Timae|                  and the flesh, not only glues the flesh to the bones,
 918 Timae|               invoke the aid of Gods and Goddesses and pray that our words
 919 Intro|                divine part of himself in godly and immortal thoughts, attains
 920 Intro|                 the two writers. Similar gossiping stories are told about the
 921 Intro|               begin anew, seeking by the grace of God to observe it still.~
 922 Timae|                 according to our ability gracefully to execute the task which
 923 Intro|                plentifully supplied with graces of speech, in their erratic
 924 Intro|             could not fail to be ‘a most gracious assistance’ to the first
 925 Intro|                  logic, of misunderstood grammar, and of the Orphic theology.~
 926 Intro|                 borrow once more his own grand expression, or viewed, in
 927 Timae|                  a younger, children and grandchildren.~TIMAEUS: Yes, and the proposal
 928 Intro|                There is nothing in Plato grander and simpler than the conversation
 929 Intro|                  his meaning. The rugged grandeur of the opening discourse
 930 Timae|             elder generation parents and grandparents, and those of a younger,
 931 Timae|                 moderate pastime. Let us grant ourselves this indulgence,
 932 Intro|                council chamber, as Plato graphically calls the head, in order
 933 Intro|        generalizations; yet this general grasp of nature led also to a
 934 Intro|                He who is intent upon the gratification of his desires and cherishes
 935 Timae|                  fitting monument of our gratitude to you, and a hymn of praise
 936 Intro|               plan of the Timaeus differ greatly from that of any other of
 937 Timae|       flame-colour with black makes leek green (Greek). There will be no
 938 Timae|                  and while they were all growing up the rulers were to be
 939 Intro|                of Plato’s dialogues have grown into a great legend, not
 940 Timae|                 arrived yesterday at the guest-chamber of Critias, with whom we
 941 Timae|              those who were yesterday my guests and are to be my entertainers
 942 Timae|               the head, but followed the guidance of those parts of the soul
 943 Intro|               metaphysical too have been guilty of similar fallacies in
 944 Intro|           between them there was still a gulf, and no one could pass from
 945 Intro|                  as the modern reader in Gulliver or Robinson Crusoe. On the
 946 Intro|             practise gymnastics, and the gymnast must cultivate music. The
 947 Timae|                  In consequence of these habits of theirs they had their
 948 Intro|            single idea of ‘law.’ To feel habitually that he is part of the order
 949 Intro|               Democritus (Hippolyt. Ref. Haer. I.) had said, would be,
 950 Timae|                  creator formed the head hairy, making use of the causes
 951 Intro|                legend seems to have been half-forgotten until revived by the discovery
 952 Timae|                  for all smells are of a half-formed nature, and no element is
 953 Intro|               poets moved in a region of half-personification in which the meaning or
 954 Intro|                  a briny nature then two half-solid bodies are formed by separating
 955 Timae|                  out of either of them a half-solid-body is then formed, soluble
 956 Timae|                  there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient
 957 Timae|                 that we can; having been handsomely entertained by you yesterday,
 958 Intro|                  hold upon us. For he is hanging between matter and mind;
 959 Intro|              ideas about science, on the haphazard fancies and a priori assumptions
 960 Timae|                 the heaven, and what was happening to them in this previous
 961 Intro|             possible to man, and also to happiness, while he is training up
 962 Intro|                  would say, ‘there is no harm in repeating twice or thrice’ (
 963 Intro|                rain in Egypt, we are not harmed by water; whereas in other
 964 Timae|            meeting together and mutually harmonising, again become earth; for
 965 Timae|                   the other, salt, which harmonizes so well in combinations
 966 Intro|             correct an error. For we too hastily said that Plato in the Timaeus
 967 Intro|                  for example, as love or hate, corresponding to attraction
 968 Timae|              education, things which are hateful to every man and happen
 969 Intro|                 walking in the garden or haunting stream or mountain. He feels
 970 Timae|                   and to bring us to the haven of probability. So now let
 971 Intro|                 in long periods of time (Hdt.). But he seems to have
 972 Intro|         experience mingled in a confused heap of a priori notions. And
 973 Intro|                writers, who delighted in heaping up learning of all sorts
 974 Timae|                  the tongue, or of those heating bodies which we termed pungent.
 975 Timae|                  turn inflame that which heats them, and which are so light
 976 Intro|             fusile kinds the fairest and heaviest is gold; this is hardened
 977 Intro|                  a sudden we fall rather heavily to the earth. There are
 978 Timae|                  and greatest we take no heed; for there is no proportion
 979 Intro|                  to the lively saying of Hegel, that ‘Greek history began
 980 Timae|                 time Paethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds
 981 Intro|              former is symbolized in the Hellenic tale of young Phaethon who
 982 Intro|            isolate phenomena, and he was helpless against the influence of
 983 Timae|             receiving from the Earth and Hephaestus the seed of your race, and
 984 Timae|              attraction of amber and the Heraclean stones,—in none of these
 985 Intro|              themselves; there were born Heracliteans or Eleatics, as there have
 986 Timae|               the fruits of the earth or herb of the field, which God
 987 Intro|                  the body. The fruits or herbs which are our daily sustenance
 988 Timae|            survivors in your country are herdsmen and shepherds who dwell
 989      | herein
 990 Intro|             Homer, nor in Pindar, nor in Herodotus is there any mention of
 991 Intro|          tetrachord or of the flute.~The Hesiodic and Orphic cosmogonies were
 992 Intro|                 bodies; in the Phaedrus, Hestia, who remains immovable in
 993 Intro|                  appearances, either the highway of mathematics, or more
 994 Timae|                  fit to command than the hinder part, made us to move mostly
 995 Timae|              their opposing current, and hindered it from predominating and
 996 Intro|               formed the vertebrae, like hinges, which extended from the
 997 Intro|             Persians, as is sufficiently hinted though not expressly stated
 998 Intro|                of worlds, as Democritus (Hippolyt. Ref. Haer. I.) had said,
 999 Timae|            thighs and the shanks and the hips, and the bones of the arms
1000 Timae|           property; they were to be like hired troops, receiving pay for