Dialogue

1001 Intro|                of the Ten Tribes (Ewald, Hist. of Isr.), which perhaps
1002 Intro|                   or the looser forms of hoar frost or snow. There are
1003 Timae|                  and condensed from dew, hoar-frost. Then, again, there are
1004 Intro|              that he was inspired by the Holy Ghost, or had received his
1005 Intro|          Phaethon who drove his father’s horses the wrong way, and having
1006 Timae|                  too glad to return your hospitality.~SOCRATES: Do you remember
1007 Timae|              other exit grow warmer, the hotter air inclining in that direction
1008 Timae|             interior of every animal the hottest part is that which is around
1009 Timae|                apartments are divided in houses, and placed the midriff
1010 Timae|                  place as before, and is humbled.~Concerning the soul, as
1011 Intro|                 mingling a satirical and humorous purpose with true principles
1012 Intro|                 the help of the cerebral humour. The diversity of the sutures
1013 Timae|               direction in which we must hunt the prey which we mean to
1014 Intro|                of swallowing, and of the hurling of bodies, are to be explained
1015 Timae|                  were overcome; but were hurrying and hurried to and fro,
1016 Timae|                  gratitude to you, and a hymn of praise true and worthy
1017 Intro|              help of sense. (Compare the hypotheses and images of Rep.) It is
1018 Intro|                  He is full of Porphyry, Iamblichus and Plotinus, of misapplied
1019 Intro|            octahedrons, water of regular icosahedrons. The stability of the last
1020 Intro|                 Lastly, Plato, though an idealist philosopher, is Greek and
1021 Intro|           against Kant’s doctrine of the ideality of space and time at once
1022 Intro|               you were describing may be identified with the reality of Solon,
1023 Intro|             Republic or Phaedrus: we may identify the same and other with
1024 Intro|               from them, they are either ignored by Plato or referred to
1025 Timae|             create infinite varieties of ill-temper and melancholy, of rashness
1026 Intro|              exercised a life-giving and illumining power. For the higher intelligence
1027 Intro|                 except in so far as they illustrate the extravagances of which
1028 Intro|             higher sense of the word—who imagines every one else to be like
1029 Timae|                 the forms of time, which imitates eternity and revolves according
1030 Intro|                exerting his dramatic and imitative power; in the Cratylus mingling
1031 Intro|         conception of matter and his own immediate experience of health and
1032 Timae|              mass of entering particles, immersed in the moisture of the mouth,
1033 Timae|                 the opposite kind, being immobile, and not extending to the
1034 Timae|               motions, but that which is immovably the same cannot become older
1035 Timae|              form; for earth is the most immoveable of the four and the most
1036 Timae|              reason of its hardness, and impair the memory and dull the
1037 Intro|                  the solid earth and the impalpable aether, were always present
1038 Timae|                the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because
1039 Timae|                place towards which it is impelled we call above, and the contrary
1040 Timae|                  parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal
1041 Intro|                 of ‘Being unbegotten and imperishable, unmoved and never-ending,
1042 Intro|                and the whole race become impervious to divine philosophy.~The
1043 Intro|              therefore make them; I will implant in them the seed of immortality,
1044 Intro|             figures of speech. He has no implements of observation, such as
1045 Intro|                 the earth is necessarily implied in its adherence to the
1046 Intro|              substance, and both equally implying to the mind of Plato a divine
1047 Intro|                which Plato also seeks to impose upon us. The verisimilitude
1048 Intro|                often the victim of them, impressive admonitions that we should
1049 Intro|                poem of Solon? ‘It is not improbable,’ says Mr. Grote, ‘that
1050 Timae|             justly charged with using an improper expression? For the centre
1051 Intro|                appropriating and perhaps improving the philosophical speculations
1052 Intro|                 very simple facts, or an inability to understand the necessary
1053 Timae|               non-existent—all these are inaccurate modes of expression (compare
1054 Timae|                  not surprised at my own incapacity; to me the wonder is rather
1055 Timae|                 of the nature of wax and incense have more of water entering
1056 Timae|                   pleasure, the greatest incitement to evil; then, pain, which
1057 Intro|                 affections—pleasure, the inciter of evil; pain, which deters
1058 Timae|              grow warmer, the hotter air inclining in that direction and carried
1059 Timae|                them the universe will be incomplete, for it will not contain
1060 Timae|                 that which is termed the incontinence of pleasure and is deemed
1061 Intro|              stability of the last three increases with the number of their
1062 Timae|                   getting the better and increasing their own power, but making
1063 Timae|               his words, so that like an indelible picture they were branded
1064 Intro|              conscious that knowledge is independent of time, that truth is not
1065 Timae|                 of those things which we indicate by the use of the words ‘
1066 Timae|                  the bones, where reason indicated that no more was required,
1067 Intro|                  most fanciful of causes indicates a higher mental state than
1068 Intro|                 said to have contributed indirectly to the great discovery.~
1069 Intro|                the glass of science, but indissolubly connected with some theory
1070 Intro|                 earth and heavens are so indistinct in the Timaeus and so figurative
1071 Intro|                  degree of confusion and indistinctness in Plato’s account both
1072 Intro|                 of content and therefore indistinguishable; there is no difference
1073 Timae|             which all other animals both individually and in their tribes are
1074 Intro|            thinkers. Though incapable of induction or generalization in the
1075 Intro|                 surer path of the modern inductive philosophy. But it remains
1076 Intro|                of modern times, have not indulged respecting it. The Neo-Platonists,
1077 Timae|                  us grant ourselves this indulgence, and go through the probabilities
1078 Intro|               congenial to the ponderous industry of certain French and Swedish
1079 Intro|                 the divine principle and indwelling power of order. There is
1080 Intro|              cause, and the cause is the ineffable father of all things, who
1081 Timae|                  each individual—barring inevitable accidents—comes into the
1082 Intro|               elements themselves are of inexact natures and easily pass
1083 Timae|            shadow of some other, must be inferred to be in another (i.e. in
1084 Intro|                 time or motion, like the infinitesimal in space, were a source
1085 Intro|           carried the mind back into the infinity of past time; they suggested
1086 Timae|              inflamed, and again in turn inflame that which heats them, and
1087 Timae|                 and controversies arise, inflames and dissolves the composite
1088 Timae|              body come from burnings and inflamings, and all of them originate
1089 Timae|                  when air is present, if inflated and encased in liquid so
1090 Timae|                 would be too brittle and inflexible, and when heated and again
1091 Intro|                 in the human soul and to infuse harmony into it. ‘The soul,
1092 Intro|             itself. The air has a double ingress and a double exit, through
1093 Intro|                are different they cannot inhere in one another, so as to
1094 Timae|          corroded becomes bitter, and is injurious to every part of the body
1095 Intro|              laws. He appears to have an inkling of the truth that to the
1096 Intro|            Timaeus, not as the centre or inmost shrine of the edifice, but
1097 Timae|                 and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes. There is a
1098 Intro|         connexion between them is really inseparable; for if we attempt to separate
1099 Timae|                  in a stone-like casing, inserting joints, and using in the
1100 Intro|                And here, like Plato (the insertion of a note in the text of
1101 Intro|                  and his word everywhere insinuated’ in them (August. Confess.)~
1102 Intro|            verisimilitude by which Plato insinuates into the mind of the reader
1103 Intro|              creation; but he would have insisted that mind and intelligence —
1104 Intro|                which they occur. In this instance the allusion is very slight,
1105 Timae|              came into being at the same instant in order that, having been
1106 Intro|                to good and evil laws and institutions. These cannot be given by
1107 Timae|              birth. And now listen to my instructions:—Three tribes of mortal
1108 Intro|                  with wasting their fine intelligences in wrong methods of enquiry;
1109 Timae|                  aware that we should be intemperate in eating and drinking,
1110 Intro|                  him. What Plato chiefly intends to express is that a solid
1111 Timae|                   and in every degree of intensity; and being carried to the
1112 Timae|                sorts of colours by their inter-mixture; but red is the most pervading
1113 Intro|               medicine of the future the interdependence of mind and body will be
1114 Intro|                 veins about the head and interlaced them with each other in
1115 Timae|                veins about the head, and interlacing them, they sent them in
1116 Timae|       decomposition of tender flesh when intermingled with air is termed by us
1117 Intro|                  may be observed in some intermittent fevers correspond to the
1118 Timae|                 by themselves and do not intermix; and also there is the class
1119 Intro|                all sorts of colours when intermixed, but the colour of red or
1120 Intro|             action of the other two,—the interpenetration of particles in proportion
1121 Timae|                decision; neither must we interpolate in our present long discourse
1122 Intro|                  mode of thinking he has interposed between them the idea or
1123 Intro|             ideal and the sensible Plato interposes the two natures of time
1124 Intro|               the world only by a divine interposition; while in the Timaeus the
1125 Intro|         convulsions of nature. Their own interpretations of Homer and the poets were
1126 Intro|                  out at his feet,’ or of interpreting even the most obvious of
1127 Intro|             nature was never that of law interrupted by exceptions,—a somewhat
1128 Timae|              over to you. And do ye then interweave the mortal with the immortal,
1129 Intro|                  the convolutions of the intestines, in this way retarding the
1130 Timae|             sensible things, having many intricate varieties, which must now
1131 Timae|               composite frame of man and introduces rheums; and the nature of
1132 Intro|                 theory of Platonic ideas intrudes upon us. God, like man,
1133 Intro|           deserted her, she repelled the invader, and of her own accord gave
1134 Timae|          defeated and triumphed over the invaders, and preserved from slavery
1135 Timae|                 it comes threatening and invading, and diffusing this bitter
1136 Timae|               and for the repulse of the invasion from Atlantis (Crit.).),
1137 Intro|                   seeking for Utopias or inventing them, was glad to escape
1138 Timae|              along the ground, are to be investigated on a similar principle;
1139 Timae|                   Let this, then, be our invocation of the Gods, to which I
1140 Timae|         altogether out of our wits, must invoke the aid of Gods and Goddesses
1141 Intro|                  the Laws respecting the involuntariness of vice.~The style and plan
1142 Timae|                 subject before us, which involves a preliminary enquiry into
1143 Intro|                musician, like Tynnichus (Ion), obliged to accommodate
1144 Intro|                 traces in Plato of early Ionic or Eleatic speculation.
1145 Intro|                The slight touch, perhaps ironical, contained in the words, ‘
1146 Intro|              contradictory, is in spirit irreconcilable with the perfect revolution
1147 Timae|                  as their nature allows, irrefutable and immovable—nothing less.
1148 Intro|               network of fire and air to irrigate the veins, having within
1149 Intro|                  network of fire and air irrigates the veins. Infancy and childhood
1150 Timae|                  parts, and equalize the irrigation. In the next place, they
1151 Timae|               and pleasant, the one sort irritating and disturbing the whole
1152 Intro|                  essential. He could not isolate phenomena, and he was helpless
1153 Intro|                  Tribes (Ewald, Hist. of Isr.), which perhaps originated
1154 Timae|              were thus made the moisture issued forth, and the liquid and
1155 Timae|                 is Timaeus, of Locris in Italy, a city which has admirable
1156 Timae|                  of four such triangles, joining their right angles in a
1157 Timae|            smoothness is produced by the joint effect of uniformity and
1158 Intro|                   by the Canaanites whom Joshua drove out’ (Procop.); but
1159 Timae|                about the liver happy and joyful, enabling it to pass the
1160 Timae|              they were to be merciful in judging their subjects, of whom
1161 Intro|               softened or concealed by a judicious use of language, but they
1162 Timae|         appearance, including pitch, the juice of the castor berry, oil
1163 Intro|        connections; we miss the ‘callida junctura’ of the earlier dialogues.
1164 Intro|                and power; but we are not justified in assuming that these had
1165 Intro|             shows that he is desirous of justifying the ways of God to man.
1166 Intro|            moving as in dance, and their juxta-positions and approximations, and
1167 Intro|                light; and he brings into juxtaposition things which to us appear
1168 Timae|          circling as in dance, and their juxtapositions, and the return of them
1169 Timae|               and may be compared to the keel of a vessel which is just
1170 Intro|         neighbourhood, on the left side, keeps the liver bright and clean,
1171 Intro|      Pythagoreans and Plato suggested to Kepler that the secret of the distances
1172 Timae|             origin of the name (thepmos, Kepma). Now, the opposite of this
1173 Timae|                bodies into small pieces (Kepmatizei), and thus naturally produces
1174 Timae|               through the lung under the kidneys and into the bladder, which
1175 Timae|                 pure and smooth earth he kneaded it and wetted it with marrow,
1176 Intro|                  way through the mist or labyrinth of appearances, either the
1177 Timae|                 excellent than one which lacked anything; and, as he had
1178 Timae|                to furnish what was still lacking to the human soul, and having
1179 Timae|               animal is not fair, for it lacks the most important of all
1180 Intro|                about the inner bones, he laid the flesh thicker. For where
1181 Intro|         education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns
1182 Intro|                 which he truly feels the lamentable ignorance prevailing in
1183 Intro|          traditions of our own and other lands are by us registered for
1184 Intro|              dependent on two principles largely employed by Plato in explaining
1185 Intro|                  art and music which had lasted, ‘not in word only, but
1186 Intro|                question much disputed of late years. Even if all phenomena
1187 Timae|              military skill, and was the leader of the Hellenes. And when
1188 Timae|             upside down and has his head leaning upon the ground and his
1189 Intro|               self-contradiction. He had learned from Socrates that vice
1190 Intro|               which he still imperfectly learns, that he must disengage
1191 Timae|            because it is like threads of leather, but rendered harder and
1192 Timae|            flame-colour with black makes leek green (Greek). There will
1193 Intro|             flame-colour and black makes leek-green. There is no difficulty
1194 Timae|               spleen) is situated on the left-hand side, and is constructed
1195 Intro|                 began to appropriate the legends of other nations, many such
1196 Intro|             explanation of the different lengths of the sun’s course in different
1197 Intro|              generating diverse kinds of leprosies. If, when mingled with black
1198 Timae|          discolours the body, generating leprous eruptions and similar diseases.
1199 Timae|             Truly, as is often said, the lessons of our childhood make a
1200 Intro|                  is apt to pass from one level or stage of thought to another
1201 Timae|               subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of us who dwell
1202 Intro|               and of her own accord gave liberty to all the nations within
1203 Intro|                 nevertheless exercised a life-giving and illumining power. For
1204 Intro|               the earth to the stars. He lifts up his eyes to the heavens
1205 Timae|                  every way, and also the lightest as being composed of the
1206 Intro|              summary of the Republic. He lightly touches upon a few points,—
1207 Timae|                  fire flashes forth like lightning, and the outer finds a way
1208 Intro|            mortal motions. Streams flow, lightnings play, amber and the magnet
1209 Timae|                one of the two concurring lights is reversed; and this happens
1210 Intro|              containing principle may be likened to a mother, the source
1211 Timae|               most likely to produce men likest herself. And there you dwelt,
1212 Intro|              prime numbers; (2) that the limitation of surfaces to squares is
1213 Intro|             Greece and of the world, was lingering in Plato’s mind. The Other
1214 Intro|                  figure (Rep.). His mind lingers around the forms of mythology,
1215 Timae|         substance which is formed by the liquefaction of new and tender flesh
1216 Intro|        interstices in them, but begin to liquefy when fire enters into the
1217 Timae|              have heard very long ago. I listened at the time with childlike
1218 Timae|         discourse will now rest and be a listener.~CRITIAS: Let me proceed
1219 Intro|                Solon; and I noticed when listening to you yesterday, how close
1220 Intro|                or figurative, and partly literal. Not that either he or we
1221 Timae|               and gates, causes pain and loathing. And the converse happens
1222 Intro|             short work entitled ‘Timaeus Locrus,’ which is a brief but clear
1223 Timae|                 mountains and in dry and lofty places are more liable to
1224 Intro|              among them, like Strabo and Longinus, were as little disposed
1225 Timae|                 rulers were to be on the look-out, and to bring up from below
1226 Timae|                  existence, they in turn loosen the bonds of the soul, and
1227 Timae|               roots of the triangles are loosened by having undergone many
1228 Intro|                 into hail or ice, or the looser forms of hoar frost or snow.
1229 Timae|                as ever, changing as they lose or gain wisdom and folly.~
1230 Timae|                 and be always gaining or losing some part of their bodily
1231 Timae|                 of them would bewail his loss, but in vain. Thus much
1232 Timae|          secretly, by the use of certain lots, so to arrange the nuptial
1233 Intro|               and the opposite is harsh. Loudness depends on the quantity
1234 Timae|                  body is the fairest and loveliest of all sights to him who
1235 Timae|              call Athene; they are great lovers of the Athenians, and say
1236 Intro|                  it. The Neo-Platonists, loyal to their master, like some
1237 Timae|               why the sun and Hermes and Lucifer overtake and are overtaken
1238 Timae|                  tell the tale, and good luck to you; and I in return
1239 Intro|                the philosophical poem of Lucretius. There is a want of flow
1240 Intro|                 freedom of the will. The lusts of men are caused by their
1241 Intro|              answering to their colours. Lymph or serum is of two kinds:
1242 Intro|              well as of the notes of the lyre. If in all things seen there
1243 Intro|               obliged to accommodate his lyric raptures to the limits of
1244 Timae|                  moving like a winnowing machine, scattered far away from
1245 Intro|                  the lesser image of the macrocosm. The courses of the same
1246 Timae|               disobedient to reason, and maddened with the sting of lust,
1247 Timae|                   we said that the chief magistrates, male and female, should
1248 Timae|         greatness of her actions and the magnanimity of her words in dealing
1249 Intro|           lightnings play, amber and the magnet attract, not by reason of
1250 Intro|              bodies to similar, having a magnetic power as well as a principle
1251 Intro|                 of his system. Philolaus magnifies the virtues of particular
1252 Intro|                is likely to multiply and magnify his diseases. Regimen and
1253 Intro|              point which has no parts or magnitude, which is nowhere, and nothing.
1254 Intro|                 also speaks of an ‘annus magnus’ or cyclical year, in which
1255 Intro|                 we may now return to the main argument: Why did God make
1256 Timae|              what was said above relates mainly to sight and hearing, because
1257 Intro|                whether, as Bockh and the majority of commentators, ancient
1258 Intro|                in time, and they are the makers of time. They are represented
1259 Timae|                 into the blood makes all maladies that may occur more virulent
1260 Timae|              that the chief magistrates, male and female, should contrive
1261 Timae|             Wherefore we ought always to manage them by regimen, as far
1262 Intro|            monument of Cicero’s skill in managing the difficult and intractable
1263 Intro|                  in the execution of her mandates. In this region, as ancient
1264 Timae|                 into which they flow are manifold.~Inflammations of the body
1265 Intro|           different times and in various manners he seeks to embody his conceptions.
1266 Intro|               the prism, or artificially manufactured for the painter’s use, but
1267 Intro|                of time, unless regularly marked by divisions of number,
1268 Intro|                  the spurious birth of a marriage between philosophy and tradition,
1269 Timae|                  old, he said, great and marvellous actions of the Athenian
1270 Timae|                 the thunderbolt, and the marvels that are observed about
1271 Timae|                  becoming rebellious and masterful, like an animal disobedient
1272 Intro|          mastered by their ideas and not masters of them. Like the Heraclitean
1273 Intro|               But Plato has not the same mastery over his instrument which
1274 Timae|               with the so-called womb or matrix of women; the animal within
1275 Timae|                  crowded and pressed and matted together, destroy sensation
1276 Intro|               Sweden or in Palestine. It mattered little whether the description
1277 Intro|                 great advance and almost maturity of natural knowledge.~We
1278 Intro|             relation, the first and most meagre of abstractions; but to
1279 Intro|                 or, in other words, only measurable by unity). The square of
1280 Intro|           influence over the ancient and mediaeval world. The obscurity arises
1281 Intro|                part, not immediately but mediately, through the liver, which
1282 Intro|             Arist. Metaph.). Having long meditated on the properties of 1:2:
1283 Intro|                 the Hebrew was gained by meditation on the Divine Being. No
1284 Timae|                  may sometimes set aside meditations about eternal things, and
1285 Timae|               opposite to their original meeting-point; and, comprehending them
1286 Intro|                  Parmenides overthrowing Megarianism by a sort of ultra-Megarianism,
1287 Timae|                  this same element, when melted and dispersed, passes into
1288 Intro|                  solid, but nevertheless melts at the approach of fire,
1289 Intro|                 rivers into the sea. The memorials which your own and other
1290 Timae|              Hellene knew anything worth mentioning about the times of old.
1291 Intro|                of destruction’ (Tim). He mentions ten heavenly bodies, including
1292 Timae|              employment; they were to be merciful in judging their subjects,
1293 Intro|              notions of the ancients the merit of being the stepping-stones
1294 Intro|                which, like the hope of a Messiah, was entering into the hearts
1295 Intro|               and not masses of earth or metal. The Pythagoreans again
1296 Intro|             modern times by geometry and metaphysics. Neither of the Greek words
1297 Intro|                 is suggested by man. The microcosm of the human body is the
1298 Intro|                 such as the telescope or microscope; the great science of chemistry
1299 Timae|                 settled nearer the head, midway between the midriff and
1300 Timae|                 in my will a greater and mightier bond than those with which
1301 Intro|              place, it takes with it the minced food or blood; and in this
1302 Intro|                 was good, and the demons ministered to him.’ The Timaeus is
1303 Intro|             although this is a matter of minor importance, that Aristotle,
1304 Timae|               adapted to that purpose. A minute discussion of this subject
1305 Intro|           touches which, partly by their minuteness, and also by their seeming
1306 Intro|           impressions, the illusions and mirages of their fancy, created
1307 Intro|                earth a surface only, not mirrored, however faintly, in the
1308 Intro|              Iamblichus and Plotinus, of misapplied logic, of misunderstood
1309 Intro|         contracted, and causing pain and misery by twisting out of its place
1310 Timae|                  single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in
1311 Intro|                 Aristotle are frequently misinterpreted by him; and he seems hardly
1312 Intro|                 This is a very crude and misleading way of describing ancient
1313      | miss
1314 Intro|               the intermediate links are missing, and we cannot be surprised
1315 Intro|                   also from the tales of missionaries and the experiences of travellers
1316 Timae|                body, to be the ruler and mistress, of whom the body was to
1317 Intro|               smell. They are vapours or mists, thinner than water and
1318 Intro|             posterity is due partly to a misunderstanding. In the supposed depths
1319 Intro|                  of misapplied logic, of misunderstood grammar, and of the Orphic
1320 Timae|                  manner:—The water which mixes with the earth and is broken
1321 Timae|                in seeing how and by what mixtures the colours derived from
1322 Timae|                 turbulent and irrational mob of later accretions, made
1323 Timae|               uniformity, it has greater mobility, and becoming fluid is thrust
1324 Timae|                   and which cleanse only moderately, are called salt, and having
1325 Intro|               and freedom, and at night, moderation and peace accompanied with
1326 Intro|              influence of words than the moderns. They had no clear divisions
1327 Intro|                  the IDEA of good. He is modest and hesitating, and confesses
1328 Timae|                  flesh, but a softer and moister nature than the bones. With
1329 Intro|           enquiry; and their progress in moral and political philosophy
1330 Intro|              attending the prosperity of mortals. But Plato delights to think
1331 Intro|                 received his wisdom from Moses, they seemed to find in
1332      | mostly
1333 Intro|               one of the highest ethical motives of which man is capable.
1334 Intro|       theological and less philosophical mould than the other dialogues,
1335 Timae|              sufficient air, but becomes mouldy and hot and gangrened and
1336 Intro|             garden or haunting stream or mountain. He feels also that he must
1337 Intro|               each to a star—then having mounted them, as in a chariot, he
1338 Timae|                air, and taking this form mounts into its own place. But
1339 Intro|                is irrational; the one is movable by persuasion, the other
1340 Intro|                  is preserved in several MSS. These generally agree,
1341 Timae|              because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was
1342 Timae|              they gave them the deep and muddy sea to be their element
1343 Intro|                They admitted of infinite multiplication and construction; in Pythagorean
1344 Intro|                sufficient account of the multiplicity of phenomena. To these a
1345 Timae|                   he only aggravates and multiplies them. Wherefore we ought
1346 Intro|                by medicine, is likely to multiply and magnify his diseases.
1347 Timae|              great, being nourished by a multitude of similar particles. But
1348 Intro|            contained, or the whole anima mundi, revolves.~The universe
1349 Intro|                  cum tempore finxit Deus mundum,’ says St. Augustine, repeating
1350 Timae|                intelligent votary of the Muses as given by them with a
1351 Intro|                tools; or to some poet or musician, like Tynnichus (Ion), obliged
1352 Intro|                 be the original meaning. Musing in themselves on the phenomena
1353 Intro|             spirit and feeling. He is no mystic or ascetic; he is not seeking
1354 Intro|              worthy of remark that these mystical fancies are nowhere to be
1355 Intro|                the Republic. The ancient mythologers, and even the Hebrew prophets,
1356 Intro|                world, he has recourse to myths. These are not the fixed
1357 Timae|               process, as we affirm, the name-giver named inspiration and expiration.
1358 Intro|                  in which Plato, without naming them, gathers up into a
1359 Intro|                  The later forms of such narratives contained features taken
1360 Intro|                and often falls under the narrowing influence which any single
1361 Intro|                Greek. In his treatise De Natura Deorum, he also refers to
1362 Timae|              those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island
1363 Intro|            should remember, (1) that the nebular theory was the received
1364 Timae|               instead of flesh the brain needed the hair to be a light covering
1365 Timae|               elements deriving what was needful for human life, and adding
1366 Timae|            direction. Wherefore man must needs have his front part unlike
1367 Intro|            retain an enthusiasm for mere negations. In different ages and countries
1368 Intro|             nature of God or Being under negatives. He sings of ‘Being unbegotten
1369 Intro|                  if a man’s education be neglected, he walks lamely through
1370 Timae|                on a struggle against her neighbours, and how she went out to
1371 Intro|                imagined that there was a Nemesis always attending the prosperity
1372 Intro|                  free from mysticism and Neo-Platonism. In length it does not exceed
1373 Intro|                spirit, who was himself a Neo-Platonist, after the fashion, not
1374 Intro|                  after the manner of the Neoplatonists. For the elements which
1375 Intro|                  e.g. of the uses of the nerves in conveying motion and
1376 Intro|                 Plato than language of a neutral and impersonal character . . .
1377 Timae|              began a divine beginning of never-ceasing and rational life enduring
1378 Intro|                imperishable, unmoved and never-ending, which never was nor will
1379 Timae|            calamity the Nile, who is our never-failing saviour, delivers and preserves
1380 Timae|               the better of them and its newer triangles cut them up, and
1381 Intro|               Greek) of the Republic and Nicomachean Ethics. First, there is
1382 Intro|                 or great, because it had nihil simile aut secundum, as
1383      | Nine
1384 Intro|                 or sixteenth, but of the nineteenth century A.D.). The commentary
1385 Intro|                 older than the eighth or ninth century B.C. It is true
1386 Intro|              courage, anger, and all the nobler affections are supposed
1387 Timae|        council-chamber, making as little noise and disturbance as possible,
1388 Intro|          subjectivity of all knowledge. ‘Non in tempore sed cum tempore
1389 Timae|                of certain conditions—the non-existence of a vacuum, the fact that
1390 Intro|                 chose to look for it; in North, South, East, or West; in
1391 Intro|                Plato (the insertion of a note in the text of an ancient
1392 Intro|                 ideas is also reduced to nothingness. All of them are nearer
1393 Intro|             another kind. Probably Plato notices this as the only remaining
1394 Timae|                  Athenian knows to be no novice in the matters of which
1395 Timae|               occupies the midriff; thus numberless painful diseases are produced,
1396 Timae|                  lots, so to arrange the nuptial meeting, that the bad of
1397 Intro|                of men? And this hope was nursed by ancient tradition, which
1398 Intro|                  blood is red, being the nurturing principle of the body, whence
1399 Intro|              circle of the universe, the nutritive power of water, the air
1400 Intro|                 authors of our being, in obedience to their Father’s will and
1401 Timae|                  children heard and were obedient to their father’s word,
1402 Intro|        explanation of Martin’s it may be objected, (1) that Plato nowhere
1403 Intro|              such an hypothesis. All the objections which may be urged against
1404 Intro|          musician, like Tynnichus (Ion), obliged to accommodate his lyric
1405 Timae|                direction, and then again obliquely, and then upside down, as
1406 Intro|                were crushed into strange oblong forms. Some of them have
1407 Timae|                  explain what was before obscurely said: there was an error
1408 Intro|                blindness which sometimes obscures his intelligence (compare
1409 Intro|                  which, to a superficial observer, it appears to be composed—
1410 Intro|              would be, as he satirically observes, ‘the characteristic of
1411 Timae|          passages of the breath, and, by obstructing respiration, drives them
1412 Timae|           density of the flesh, does not obtain sufficient air, but becomes
1413 Timae|              bonds of the soul, and she, obtaining a natural release, flies
1414 Timae|                has many throes, and also obtains many pleasures in his desires
1415 Intro|               most obvious fallacies. He occasionally confused numbers with ideas,
1416 Intro|                 of diseases. They may be occasioned by the disarrangement or
1417 Intro|        complexity of the appearances and occultations of the stars, which, if
1418 Timae|           necessity be in some place and occupy a space, but that what is
1419 Intro|               Eclog.), and descants upon odd and even numbers, after
1420 Intro|        entertained; and do you, Timaeus, offer up a prayer and begin.’~
1421 Timae|                 following remarks may be offered. Of the men who came into
1422 Timae|               belongs to the class which offers the greatest resistance;
1423 Timae|                 important and honourable offices in his own state, and, as
1424 Timae|       accompanied by copious sweats. And oftentimes when the flesh is dissolved
1425 Timae|                 purest and smoothest and oiliest sort of triangles, dropping
1426 Timae|                  tongue, and smooths and oils over the roughness, and
1427 Intro|         discovery. Some of them may seem old-fashioned, but may nevertheless have
1428 Timae|                  CRITIAS: I will tell an old-world story which I heard from
1429 Intro|                  human frame, but in the omission to observe how little could
1430 Intro|                 of the Timaeus of Plato, omitting the introduction or dialogue
1431 Intro|               but from the sixth century onwards or even earlier there arose
1432 Intro|            example, the pure aether, the opaque mist, and other nameless
1433 Timae|        constructed one of these with two openings, and from the lesser weels
1434 Timae|              either the one or the other operation.~These are the elements,
1435 Intro|                  Plato in explaining the operations of nature, the impossibility
1436 Timae|         disorders are called tetanus and opisthotonus, by reason of the tension
1437 Timae|                  the flesh; it is called opos (a vegetable acid).~As to
1438 Intro|                 anticipations, and their opportunities of observation were limited.
1439 Timae|                and this affords a second opportunity of observing diseases to
1440 Timae|              becomes blind, and delivers oracles too obscure to be intelligible.
1441 Intro|              guard whence they carry the orders of the thinking being to
1442 Timae|               creator had made all these ordinances he remained in his own accustomed
1443 Timae|       circumstances under which they are ordinarily applied by us to the division
1444 Intro|            philosopher, is Greek and not Oriental in spirit and feeling. He
1445 Intro|            reduced to order the chaos of Orientalism. And kindred spirits, like
1446      | otherwise
1447 Timae|                 as a punishment of their outlandish ignorance. These are the
1448 Timae|                  heat naturally proceeds outward to its own place and to
1449 Intro|                case the propelling cause outwards—the inhaled air, when heated
1450 Intro|                is unsatisfied the man is over-mastered by the power of the generative
1451 Timae|                  into the veins, then an over-supply of blood of diverse kinds,
1452 Intro|               the prescriptions of a not over-wise doctor). If he seems to
1453 Timae|                 marrow too plentiful and overflowing, like a tree overladen with
1454 Timae|                 overflowing, like a tree overladen with fruit, has many throes,
1455 Timae|                 a state of quiescence is overmastered and perishes; but if any
1456 Intro|           unfolded, more absorbing, more overpowering, more abiding than the brightest
1457 Intro|               famous of them all was the overthrow of the island of Atlantis.
1458 Intro|              language; in the Parmenides overthrowing Megarianism by a sort of
1459 Timae|             arose the race of fishes and oysters, and other aquatic animals,
1460 Timae|         preserved, that once upon a time Paethon, the son of Helios, having
1461 Intro|                the primeval chaos. These pairs of opposites are so many
1462 Timae|             combinations pleasing to the palate, and is, as the law testifies,
1463 Intro|               Gibraltar, in Sweden or in Palestine. It mattered little whether
1464 Timae|              bodies, shall carry off the palm, not as an enemy, but as
1465 Intro|               put together a visible and palpable heaven, having harmony and
1466 Timae|               gods, foreknowing that the palpitation of the heart in the expectation
1467 Intro|              quoted by Mr Grote (see his pamphlet on ‘The Rotation of the
1468 Intro|                and very appropriate to a Panathenaic festival; the truth of the
1469 Intro|                 put into other words the parable in which Plato has wrapped
1470 Intro|                 Laws or in the Statesman parallels with the account of creation
1471 Intro|                we may perhaps venture to paraphrase or interpret or put into
1472 Timae|                 is the common patron and parent and educator of both our
1473 Timae|                  are fighting or holding parley with their enemies. And
1474 Timae|             modes of expression (compare Parmen.). But perhaps this whole
1475 Timae|                as nature intended, might participate in number, learning arithmetic
1476 Timae|                 utterly incapable of any participation in reason. He who has the
1477 Intro|                 The greater frequency of participles and of absolute constructions
1478 Intro|              flowers and present them at parting to the reader. There is
1479 Timae|                  midriff to be a wall of partition between them. That part
1480 Timae|                Timaeus, who is our other partner, approves.~TIMAEUS: I quite
1481 Intro|                 and discoloured, and are patched and made up again like worn-out
1482 Intro|             mathematics, or more devious paths suggested by the analogy
1483 Intro|                 who often speak to their patients of the worthlessness of
1484 Timae|                goddess who is the common patron and parent and educator
1485 Intro|                day, and has been a great peace-maker between theology and science.
1486 Intro|                  and around the same, in peaceful unchanging thought of the
1487 Intro|                  from them, he is deeply penetrated by the spirit of their philosophy;
1488 Intro|              power, or want of power, of penetration. The single particles of
1489 Timae|                  exit or escape, but are pent up within and mingle their
1490 Intro|              which is made out of twelve pentagons), the dodecahedron—this
1491 Intro|                 years the human mind was peopled with abstractions; a new
1492 Intro|                existence as to be hardly perceivable, yet always reappearing
1493 Intro|             garden, watering them with a perennial stream. Two were cut down
1494 Timae|                  cities, is said to have performed the noblest deeds and to
1495 Intro|                  whole earth. For at the peril of her own existence, and
1496 Intro|           fragments, never attained to a periodic style. And hence we find
1497 Timae|           quiescence is overmastered and perishes; but if any one, in imitation
1498 Timae|                  process of becoming and perishing and never really is. Now
1499 Intro|                 the element of order and permanence in man and on the earth.
1500 Intro|                  enables fire and air to permeate the flesh.~Plato’s account