Dialogue

1501 Intro|                 them as far as necessity permitted.~The probable conclusion
1502 Timae|             disturbance as possible, and permitting the best part to advise
1503 Timae|               them from without or being perpetrated by the desires within, quickly
1504 Timae|                 that which is to receive perpetually and through its whole extent
1505 Intro|                  life, further tended to perplex them. Plato’s doctrine of
1506 Intro|                 in some cases remote and perplexing. The greater frequency of
1507 Intro|          struggle between the Greeks and Persians, as is sufficiently hinted
1508 Intro|                expression describing the personal, the other the impersonal
1509 Intro|                 also be conceived as the personification of the numbers and figures
1510 Intro|                   The water of tears and perspiration and similar substances is
1511 Intro|                 is made up of both, mind persuading necessity as far as possible
1512 Intro|                  which, though liable to perturbations of her own, takes the side
1513 Intro|                 why should they not also pervade the unseen world, with which
1514 Intro|                 antithesis and synthesis pervades all art and nature, we are
1515 Timae|       inter-mixture; but red is the most pervading of them, being created by
1516 Timae|               stream from heaven, like a pestilence, comes pouring down, and
1517 Intro|               the Hellenic tale of young Phaethon who drove his father’s horses
1518 Timae|                  it would be led away by phantoms and visions night and day,—
1519 Intro|             sudden violation, of nature (Phileb.). The sensations become
1520 Intro|             either in a philosophical or philological point of view. The writer
1521 Intro|                entities, such as life or phlogiston, which exist in the mind
1522 Timae|            Heaven, and from these sprang Phorcys and Cronos and Rhea, and
1523 Intro|                of Earth and Heaven; that Phoreys, Cronos, and Rhea came in
1524 Intro|               crossed by another sort of phraseology: ‘God made the world because
1525 Intro|            species of motion imparted by physic. This should only be resorted
1526 Intro|                 more divided. The modern physicist confines himself to one
1527 Intro|            physical phenomena. The early physiologists had generally written in
1528 Timae|                so that like an indelible picture they were branded into my
1529 Timae|         inspiration of the understanding pictures images of an opposite character,
1530 Intro|                to go upwards and fire to pierce through air—when water and
1531 Intro|           impassioned soul may ‘fret the pigmy body to decay,’ and so produce
1532 Intro|              motion. In the Republic the pilgrims appear to be looking out
1533 Timae|                to rule over them, and to pilot the mortal animal in the
1534 Intro|                 neither in Homer, nor in Pindar, nor in Herodotus is there
1535 Timae|            placed under one another like pivots, beginning at the head and
1536 Intro|              Christ (Plut. Symp. Quaest; Plac. Phil.); (3) that even by
1537 Timae|         individual these intimations are plainer, but after his death the
1538 Timae|                 and inasmuch as we are a plant not of an earthly but of
1539 Timae|                 of the four and the most plastic of all bodies, and that
1540 Intro|                   360 scalene triangles (Platon. Quaest.), representing
1541 Intro|                 Streams flow, lightnings play, amber and the magnet attract,
1542 Intro|              Greek) or matter, which has played so great a part in the metaphysical
1543 Timae|            living could best exhibit her playing a fitting part. When I had
1544 Timae|              because he thought so or to please Critias, said that in his
1545 Timae|                  so well in combinations pleasing to the palate, and is, as
1546 Timae|              about the spinal marrow too plentiful and overflowing, like a
1547 Intro|               that the Sophists, who are plentifully supplied with graces of
1548 Intro|                When men are in this evil plight of body, and evil forms
1549 Intro|                 Porphyry, Iamblichus and Plotinus, of misapplied logic, of
1550 Intro|                   until the two meet and pluck the fruit of the tree.~The
1551 Timae|                  together and as it were plucking the fruit from the tree,
1552 Intro|                which is the principle of plurality and variation in the Timaeus,
1553 Intro|             sixth century before Christ (Plut. Symp. Quaest; Plac. Phil.); (
1554 Intro|                 and possibly because, as Plutarch remarks, it is composed
1555 Timae|                  are the artificers, who ply their several crafts by
1556 Intro|                 the Timaeus of Plato, in pointing out the inconsistencies
1557 Timae|                take part at once both in politics and philosophy. Here is
1558 Intro|               the only remaining regular polyhedron, which from its approximation
1559 Timae|              were created quadrupeds and polypods: God gave the more senseless
1560 Intro|              especially congenial to the ponderous industry of certain French
1561 Intro|         qualities of matter. (2) Another popular notion which is found in
1562 Intro|        generation, just as the number of population in the Republic is the expression
1563 Intro|          substance of the lung, having a porous and springy nature like
1564 Intro|               bring to it. He is full of Porphyry, Iamblichus and Plotinus,
1565 Timae|             quadrangular bases is firmly posed and belongs to the class
1566 Intro|              greater Gods, such as Zeus, Poseidon, Apollo, Athene, are universals
1567 Timae|                  the assurance to assert positively that any of them, whatever
1568 Timae|                 the power which they now possess, enough has been said. I
1569 Timae|                   And every sort of body possesses solidity, and every solid
1570 Timae|                right names, and make the possessor of them to become a rational
1571 Intro|             remains, for then there is a possibility of recovery. But when the
1572 Intro|             priori road was based upon a posteriori grounds. For there were
1573 Intro|               Timaeus has exercised upon posterity is due partly to a misunderstanding.
1574 Timae|                 the left right. If, when powerfully experiencing these and similar
1575 Intro|                they were also capable of practical application. Many curious
1576 Timae|                together in the continual practice of virtue, which was to
1577 Timae|          gratitude to you, and a hymn of praise true and worthy of the goddess,
1578 Timae|                of Gods and Goddesses and pray that our words may be acceptable
1579 Intro|                 you, Timaeus, offer up a prayer and begin.’~TIMAEUS: All
1580 Timae|               among all mankind. She was pre-eminent in courage and military
1581 Intro|             forms which are impressed on pre-existent matter. It is remarkable
1582 Intro|               retaining only a faint and precarious existence. At the same time,
1583 Timae|               uniform parts is that most precious possession called gold,
1584 Intro|                  of which nothing can be predicated, and the chaos or matter
1585 Intro|               Anaxagoras, he asserts the predominance of mind, although admitting
1586 Intro|                the colour of red or fire predominates, and hence the liquid which
1587 Timae|            current, and hindered it from predominating and advancing; and they
1588 Timae|           Socrates, to make an end of my preface, I am ready to tell you
1589 Timae|                  that every one ought to prefer a shorter span of life,
1590 Intro|                life which was better was preferable to a longer which was worse,
1591 Intro|            suppose that Plato would have preferred the study of nature to man,
1592 Timae|              before us, which involves a preliminary enquiry into the generation
1593 Timae|             precisely as you bid us. The prelude is charming, and is already
1594 Intro|                  progress.~The charge of premature generalization which is
1595 Intro|              best, and have been already preparing; for on our way home, Critias
1596 Intro|               spoke. As the law of Solon prescribes, we will bring them into
1597 Intro|                 the aged rustic than the prescriptions of a not over-wise doctor).
1598 Intro|               the veil of mythology, and presents her to us in what appears
1599 Timae|                the gods invented for the preservation of sight, are closed, they
1600 Intro|                of space and time at once press upon us. If time is unreal,
1601 Timae|                not, by being crowded and pressed and matted together, destroy
1602 Intro|                 form of air—this in turn presses upon the mass of earth,
1603 Timae|               after the elements, let us presuppose the existence of body and
1604 Intro|              incapable; for, although he pretends to have nothing to say against
1605 Timae|                 and graceless ways which prevail among mankind generally,
1606 Intro|                  of the human mind which prevailed widely in the first centuries
1607 Intro|                 the lamentable ignorance prevailing in his own age.~We are led
1608 Timae|                or of summer sun does not prevent, mankind exist, sometimes
1609 Timae|                so that the food might be prevented from passing quickly through
1610 Timae|                  the blood and makes the previously-mentioned disorders still greater.
1611 Timae|                in which we must hunt the prey which we mean to take. A
1612 Intro|            impress form and order on the primaeval chaos of human knowledge.
1613 Intro|                   Tim.). The dialogue is primarily concerned with the animal
1614 Intro|                 6), whereas the cubes of primes (e.g. 3 cubed and 5 cubed)
1615 Intro|                the creative mind and the primeval chaos. These pairs of opposites
1616 Intro|             somewhere existed an ancient primitive civilization. It might find
1617 Intro|             appear in it. They are found principally in the first half of the
1618 Intro|                  they are divided in the prism, or artificially manufactured
1619 Intro|                or to the great political problems which he discusses in the
1620 Intro|               while the other gods go in procession, is called the first and
1621 Timae|                  roused by reason making proclamation of any wrong assailing them
1622 Intro|                  whom Joshua drove out’ (Procop.); but even if true, it
1623 Timae|               within them is desirous of procreating children, and when remaining
1624 Intro|                  of infinite ages in the production of physical phenomena. He
1625 Timae|         proportion or disproportion more productive of health and disease, and
1626 Intro|                 he had made considerable proficiency, there were others, such
1627 Timae|               and of whom some will have profited by the excellent education
1628 Intro|                  Latin translation, were profoundly affected by them, seeming
1629 Timae|               whole animal was moved and progressed, irregularly however and
1630 Intro|                Thus arises the following progression:— Moon 1, Sun 2, Venus 3,
1631 Intro|          composed of the two Pythagorean progressions 1, 2, 4, 8 and 1, 3, 9,
1632 Intro|                was recurring rather than progressive. To this he was probably
1633 Timae|           swallowing of drink and of the projection of bodies, whether discharged
1634 Intro|                 the fiction. It was most prolific in the seventeenth or in
1635 Intro|            monument of the silliness and prolixity of the Alexandrian Age.
1636 Intro|                 many,’ brighter than any Promethean fire (Phil.), which co-existing
1637 Timae|                can be more ready for the promised banquet.~HERMOCRATES: And
1638 Intro|                 had a great influence in promoting system and assisting enquiry,
1639 Intro|                  and we therefore cannot pronounce, either in favour of the
1640 Intro|               demonstrative and relative pronouns are in some cases remote
1641 Timae|            overtake the swifter and then propel them. When they overtake
1642 Intro|                 sensible than the Hebrew prophet of the existence of evil,
1643 Timae|                earth and fire and of the proportionate and intermediate elements.
1644 Intro|                 new forms. Plato himself proposes the question, Why does motion
1645 Intro|                  is required by dramatic propriety; for the investigation of
1646 Timae|              great, and there is still a prospect of an easy recovery; but
1647 Intro|             Nemesis always attending the prosperity of mortals. But Plato delights
1648 Intro|               Timaeus of Plato, like the Protagoras and several portions of
1649 Timae|                guard from those who were protected by them—the pay was to be
1650 Intro|                  case of fractions, they protested against her (Rep.; Arist.
1651 Intro|                 admitted that out of the protoplasm all things were formed by
1652 Intro|                 triangles, and cannot be protracted when they are worn out.
1653 Intro|               planets, a necessity which protrudes through nature. Of this
1654 Timae|            admits not of destruction and provides a home for all created things,
1655 Timae|              created thus, his own waste providing his own food, and all that
1656 Timae|                  spare the time, and not provoke a disagreeable enemy by
1657 Intro|              house of cards which we are pulling to pieces and putting together
1658 Intro|              been covered with a thicker pulp of flesh, might have been
1659 Intro|                  and salt, so as to form pulpy flesh. But the sinews he
1660 Timae|                  passages where it goes, pumps them as from a fountain
1661 Timae|                  remote habitations as a punishment of their outlandish ignorance.
1662 Intro|               making it flow through the pupils. When the light of the eye
1663 Intro|                 The story that Plato had purchased three books of his writings
1664 Timae|                  through consists of the purest and smoothest and oiliest
1665 Intro|                 potash and soda, bitter. Purgatives of a weaker sort are called
1666 Timae|                  soda, which is used for purging away oil and earth, the
1667 Timae|          discharges by which the body is purified. Now all these become causes
1668 Timae|                Wherefore of all modes of purifying and re-uniting the body
1669 Intro|               mist, seemed to darken the purity of truth in itself.—So far
1670 Intro|                  any single branch, when pursued to the exclusion of every
1671 Intro|             particles of matter are ever pushing one another round and round (
1672 Timae|                 bodies that are damp, or putrefying, or liquefying, or evaporating,
1673 Intro|          subdivision—a wonder and also a puzzle to the ancient thinker (
1674 Intro|               saying of Anaxagoras—Sext. Pyrrh.—that since snow is made
1675 Timae|             reason why they were created quadrupeds and polypods: God gave the
1676 Timae|                  would, none were better qualified to carry the discussion
1677 Timae|                 his genius and education qualify him to take part in any
1678 Intro|                  Loudness depends on the quantity of the sound. Of the harmony
1679 Intro|                 When two kinds of bodies quarrel with one another, then the
1680 Timae|                   and there was to be no quarrelling on this account, for they
1681 Timae|                  period, the result is a quartan fever, which can with difficulty
1682 Timae|                the assertion; but if the questioner be willing to take the safe
1683 Intro|                but could not have had as quick perceptions. On the other
1684 Intro|               field in which the seed is quickened and matured, and at last
1685 Intro|                darkening the reason, and quickening the animal desires. The
1686 Timae|                motion when in a state of quiescence is overmastered and perishes;
1687 Timae|              fountain of the blood which races through all the limbs, was
1688 Intro|                   and as there is little rain in Egypt, we are not harmed
1689 Timae|                and weigh them, and then, raising the balance, were to draw
1690 Timae|                 is himself in wealth and rank the equal of any of his
1691 Intro|               was as great an impiety in ranking theories of physics first
1692 Intro|                 to accommodate his lyric raptures to the limits of the tetrachord
1693 Intro|                of this was some element, rarefied by degrees into a pure abstraction,
1694 Intro|      interchangeable elements, fire, the rarest, can only become a denser,
1695 Intro|               own; and they were not the rash and hasty generalizers which,
1696 Intro|                  under any other. At any rate, the language of Plato has
1697 Intro|                 All that he did was done rationally in and by himself, and he
1698 Timae|            divided by fire or by air, on re-forming, may become one part fire
1699 Timae|               all modes of purifying and re-uniting the body the best is gymnastic;
1700 Intro|           Pillars the empire of Atlantis reached in Europe to Tyrrhenia and
1701 Intro|               Plato and Greek philosophy reacted upon the East, and a Greek
1702 Intro|                 uncertain whether we are reading a description of astronomical
1703 Intro|              Being, the most real of all realities, the most certain of all
1704 Intro|                 discovery of America. It realized the fiction so natural to
1705 Intro|                the Alexandrian times; it realizes how a philosophy made up
1706 Intro|                Eleatic philosophy in the realm of opinion, which, like
1707 Intro|                to mathematics in all the realms of nature; for in all of
1708 Timae|                 or five, takes up a more reasonable position. Arguing from probabilities,
1709 Intro|                  reason which was in him reasserted her sway over the elements
1710 Intro|                 discourse, I was able to recall every word of this, which
1711 Timae|          troubling you, will you briefly recapitulate the whole, and then the
1712 Timae|                 some another, that which receded most slowly from the sphere
1713      | recent
1714 Timae|                  her; she is the natural recipient of all impressions, and
1715 Intro|                  out of fashion, and the recital of them led some one to
1716 Intro|                  parents gave prizes for recitation. Some poems of Solon were
1717 Timae|                  parents gave prizes for recitations, and the poems of several
1718 Timae|           downwards.~All these are to be reckoned among the second and co-operative
1719 Timae|                of their descendants, and reckoning up the dates, tried to compute
1720 Intro|              were current in his age, he recognised the marks both of benevolence
1721 Intro|              with reluctance, and gladly recognizes the ‘generous depth’ of
1722 Intro|               which I propose briefly to reconsider are (a) the relation of
1723 Intro|            Egyptian priests or have read records in their temples. The truth
1724 Timae|                 yours which you just now recounted to us, Solon, they are no
1725 Intro|                 end of the world, he has recourse to myths. These are not
1726 Timae|                good and evil, must first recover his wits. But, while he
1727 Intro|                 the course of events was recurring rather than progressive.
1728 Timae|             things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals; at
1729 Timae|                  fire, which are seen in red-hot embers after the flame has
1730 Timae|                  tinged with blood has a redder colour; and this, when mixed
1731 Timae|                 and by moderate exercise reduces to order according to their
1732 Intro|                 as Democritus (Hippolyt. Ref. Haer. I.) had said, would
1733 Intro|                 like these that Plato is referring when he speaks of the uncertainty
1734 Intro|                  world, are put into the refiner’s fire, and the dross and
1735 Intro|                and as the bitter element refines away, becomes acid. When
1736 Intro|                time, because I wanted to refresh my memory. I had heard the
1737 Timae|               the bile and bitterness by refusing to stir or touch the nature
1738 Intro|                  the courses of the soul regain their proper motion, and
1739 Intro|                had engrossed her, and he regained his first and better nature.
1740 Timae|              that they are one; another, regarding the question from another
1741 Timae|                  of diseases; if any one regardless of the appointed time tries
1742 Intro|                and other lands are by us registered for ever in our temples.
1743 Intro|                 that the same laws which regulated the heavenly bodies were
1744 Intro|                 ten. The occasion of the rehearsal was the day of the Apaturia
1745 Timae|                 soon as the day broke, I rehearsed them as he spoke them to
1746 Intro|                 waters is contemptuously rejected by him in the Phaedo, but
1747 Timae|                 they describe; when they relate to the lasting and permanent
1748 Timae|              whereas what was said above relates mainly to sight and hearing,
1749 Intro|                vice is attributed to the relaxation of the bodily frame, and
1750 Intro|                 Unlike the Eleatics, who relegated the world to the sphere
1751 Timae|               cure of them is difficult; relief is in most cases given by
1752 Intro|             immortality of the soul. All religions and philosophies met and
1753 Timae|                 compressing by force the reluctant and unsociable nature of
1754 Intro|          condemnation of medicine and to rely too much on diet and exercise,
1755 Timae|                material out of which the remainder of our discourse must be
1756 Intro|          according to their nature, this remedial power in them is called
1757 Timae|                 would understand what he remembers to have been said, whether
1758 Intro|               all art and nature, we are reminded of the Philebus. When he
1759 Intro|               body, we find nothing that reminds us of anatomical facts.
1760 Timae|            obtained by sight; these were remodelled and transformed into birds,
1761 Intro|                 nearer more swiftly, the remoter more slowly, according to
1762 Timae|                 and smooth and free, and renders the portion of the soul
1763 Intro|               diseased, and is no longer renewed from the muscles and sinews,
1764 Timae|           thinking being to the thought, renewing his original nature, and
1765 Intro|                  of nature was expressly renounced by Socrates in the Phaedo.
1766 Intro|                city did bravely, and won renown over the whole earth. For
1767 Intro|           Hellenes had deserted her, she repelled the invader, and of her
1768 Timae|           revolving in and about itself, repelling the motion from without
1769 Timae|           concave and its smooth surface repels the right stream of vision
1770 Timae|                gain a pleasure not to be repented of, and secure for himself
1771 Intro|                of apposition and more of repetition than occurs in Plato’s earlier
1772 Timae|           carried to its kindred nature, replenishes the void. When more is taken
1773 Timae|                  but are sensible of the replenishment; and so they occasion no
1774 Intro|             triangles (Platon. Quaest.), representing thus the signs and degrees
1775 Intro|              before Christ is not easily reproduced to modern eyes. The associations
1776 Timae|         foundation of Athens and for the repulse of the invasion from Atlantis (
1777 Intro|           corresponding to attraction or repulsion; or the conception of necessity
1778 Intro|                  is the most obscure and repulsive to the modern reader, and
1779 Timae|                 his words, and earnestly requested the priests to inform him
1780 Timae|               with letters and the other requisites of civilized life, after
1781 Intro|                to all things; nature was rescued from chaos and confusion
1782 Timae|                portion of the soul which resides about the liver happy and
1783 Intro|                  Pythagorean philosopher residing at Thebes in the latter
1784 Timae|                which offers the greatest resistance; so too does that which
1785 Intro|              physic. This should only be resorted to by men of sense in extreme
1786 Intro|               geometrical forms to their respective elements. The cube is the
1787 Intro|            Metaph.). But though in these respects he differs from them, he
1788 Intro|            ignorance, and caused them to respire water instead of the pure
1789 Timae|                 in that part in which it respires a lively desire of emission,
1790 Intro|                physical science, how the responsibility of man is to be reconciled
1791 Intro|                 the first being a sudden restoration, the second a sudden violation,
1792 Timae|                  soothing influence, and restoring this same region to an agreeable
1793 Timae|                 Thus compressed the mass resumes its equability, and is again
1794 Intro|               several new beginnings and resumptions and formal or artificial
1795 Intro|                 mythological ideas still retained their hold over him. He
1796 Intro|                  intestines, in this way retarding the passage of food through
1797 Intro|                in the sky, and those who retire from view, had come into
1798 Timae|               more uniform, and by their retirement is compressed into itself;
1799 Intro|                  As in the Statesman, he retires to his place of view. So
1800 Timae|             author of the inequality has retreated; and this departure of the
1801 Intro|            original triangles; and (3) a reunion of them in new forms. Plato
1802 Intro|                  certain proportions and reunited; it was then cut into two
1803 Timae|               heavenly progress received reversals of motion, to the end that
1804 Timae|                 of the carpenter, let us revert in a few words to the point
1805 Intro|                been half-forgotten until revived by the discovery of America.
1806 Intro|                 When the passions are in revolt, or danger approaches from
1807 Intro|            centre of the universe, or to revolve with the heavens, no explanation
1808 Intro|               how the forms of logic and rhetoric may usurp the place of reason
1809 Timae|         separated. And the glutinous and rich matter which comes away
1810 Intro|                and he characteristically ridicules Democritus for not seeing
1811 Intro|                another, as in sailing or riding; least good when the body
1812 Timae|                   that, when passion was rife within, the heart, beating
1813 Intro|                  the marrow by too great rigidity and susceptibility to heat
1814 Intro|                  by which he has himself risen to a higher knowledge. He
1815 Intro|                  he comparatively seldom rises above his own department,
1816 Intro|                exist for the purposes of ritual or of art; but from the
1817 Intro|                  the war between the two rival powers and the submersion
1818 Intro|             modern reader in Gulliver or Robinson Crusoe. On the other hand
1819 Timae|                 by the external air, and rolled up underneath the skin,
1820 Timae|                structure, have plenty of room to move without forcing
1821 Timae|                  being, but is fixed and rooted in the same spot, having
1822 Timae|                  particles. But when the roots of the triangles are loosened
1823 Intro|               Zeller, or, with Valentine Rose and Schaarschmidt, against
1824 Timae|               are astringent if they are rougher, but if not so rough, then
1825 Intro|              into three parts, answering roughly to the charioteer and steeds
1826 Timae|                 the might of passion was roused by reason making proclamation
1827 Intro|              When we have shaken off the rubbish of ages, there remain one
1828 Intro|                 express his meaning. The rugged grandeur of the opening
1829 Timae|                 that the elder should be ruled by the younger; but this
1830 Timae|                  were all growing up the rulers were to be on the look-out,
1831 Timae|                are made according to the rules of probability. He, however,
1832 Timae|               might be watered as from a running stream. In the first place,
1833 Intro|               and the circle of the same runs smoothly, then intelligence
1834 Intro|                 to the limbs of the aged rustic than the prescriptions of
1835 Timae|    indefiniteness is characteristic of a sadly indefinite and ignorant
1836 Timae|        questioner be willing to take the safe and indefinite expression, ‘
1837 Timae|                  the wisest of the seven sages. He was a relative and a
1838 Timae|          properties, as well as acid and saline qualities, contains all
1839 Timae|                  us boys, and many of us sang the poems of Solon, which
1840 Timae|                 by the name of juices or saps. The unequal admixture of
1841 Intro|                  the Cratylus mingling a satirical and humorous purpose with
1842 Intro|                had said, would be, as he satirically observes, ‘the characteristic
1843 Intro|                 which appears to have no satisfactory solution. In what relation
1844 Timae|         expression, ‘such,’ we should be satisfied. And the same argument applies
1845 Intro|                Even the fetichism of the savage is the beginning of reasoning;
1846 Intro|                 there is no education to save them, they are corrupted
1847 Timae|              only the expositors of dark sayings and visions, and are not
1848 Timae|                   and, as I believe, has scaled the heights of all philosophy;
1849 Timae|            profound, sleep comes over us scarce disturbed by dreams; but
1850 Timae|               number, and hence they can scarcely be said to know that their
1851 Timae|                  which is to receive the scent shall be as inodorous as
1852 Intro|                  are prepared to receive scents, or the smooth and soft
1853 Intro|              drugs. For we ourselves are sceptical about medicine, and very
1854 Intro|                  with Valentine Rose and Schaarschmidt, against them. But it is
1855 Intro|             would be possible to frame a scheme in which all these various
1856 Intro|      philosophies met and mingled in the schools of Alexandria, and the Neo-Platonists
1857 Intro|             formed, cannot be determined scientifically or even probably. Red, when
1858 Intro|                  own or of other nations scraps of medicine and astronomy,
1859 Intro|                 has found a way over the seas from one country and language
1860 Intro|              garments, and retain only a second-hand existence. He who would
1861 Intro|               animosities of a religious sect. Yet, doubtless, there was
1862 Intro|            divide this Introduction into sections, of which the first will
1863 Intro|                  it had nihil simile aut secundum, as say that Greek physics
1864 Timae|               not to be repented of, and secure for himself while he lives
1865 Timae|             remember how, with a view of securing as far as we could the best
1866 Intro|                 animal desires. The only security is to preserve the balance
1867 Intro|               knowledge. ‘Non in tempore sed cum tempore finxit Deus
1868 Timae|                  phlegm. And the whey or sediment of newly-formed phlegm is
1869 Timae|                 the trees and plants and seeds which have been improved
1870 Timae|             still, alive but at rest, is seized with a desire of seeing
1871 Intro|            science. But he comparatively seldom rises above his own department,
1872 Timae|               the infinite forms we must select the most beautiful, if we
1873 Timae|                 infinite evil to its own self—in like manner we should
1874 Intro|                of the ‘depths of his own self-consciousness.’ Socrates had already spoken
1875 Intro|                every part harmonious and self-contained and truly blessed. The soul
1876 Intro|               escape from some degree of self-contradiction. He had learned from Socrates
1877 Timae|         conceived that a being which was self-sufficient would be far more excellent
1878 Timae|                himself, when he made the self-sufficing and most perfect God, using
1879 Intro|                  the celebrated lines of Seneca and in many other places.
1880 Intro|                referred to. Here occur a sentence or two not wanting in Platonic
1881 Intro|                  they confirmed a higher sentiment of the mind, that there
1882 Intro|              Plato is expressing his own sentiments. Hence the connexion with
1883 Timae|                flesh and the sinews, and separates from the bone, and the fleshy
1884 Timae|         extension, while the flesh would serve as a protection against
1885 Intro|              part ideal; the cyclic year serves as the connection between
1886 Timae|                 join with passion in the service of reason.~The part of the
1887 Timae|                 when the body is purged, settles down into the same place
1888 Intro|                 was most prolific in the seventeenth or in the early part of
1889 Timae|               times the first (8), and a seventh part which was twenty-seven
1890 Intro|               Velleius the Epicurean, he severely criticises.~The commentary
1891 Intro|                 the saying of Anaxagoras—Sext. Pyrrh.—that since snow
1892 Timae|              created in us the desire of sexual intercourse, contriving
1893 Timae|                  guard, which would give shade in summer and shelter in
1894 Intro|               ever-flowing current, they shake the courses of the soul,
1895 Intro|                is the explanation of the shallows which are found in that
1896 Timae|                  also the thighs and the shanks and the hips, and the bones
1897 Timae|                or received or in any way shared by us.~Seeing, then, that
1898 Timae|               human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must
1899 Intro|                milk. These triangles are sharper than those which enter the
1900 Timae|                 give shade in summer and shelter in winter, and at the same
1901 Timae|                this reason is bright and shining and of a glistening appearance,
1902 Timae|         impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this
1903 Timae|                then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence
1904 Timae|                  and by its motion again shook them; and the elements when
1905 Timae|               race which was worse, or a shorter-lived race which was better, came
1906 Intro|              displayed by the author, in showing the fancifulness or unmeaningness
1907 Intro|                  as the centre or inmost shrine of the edifice, but as a
1908 Timae|                 the lobe and closing and shutting up the vessels and gates,
1909 Timae|                 following manner. Having sifted pure and smooth earth he
1910 Intro|                   The bone was formed by sifting pure smooth earth and wetting
1911 Intro|               that these had any greater significance to the mind of Plato than
1912 Timae|               form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies
1913 Timae|                   supposing ourselves to signify something thereby; for they
1914 Intro|                    representing thus the signs and degrees of the Zodiac,
1915 Intro|                wonderful monument of the silliness and prolixity of the Alexandrian
1916 Timae|                  not to consider gold or silver or anything else to be their
1917 Intro|                  a greater perception of similarities which lie on the surface
1918 Intro|              great, because it had nihil simile aut secundum, as say that
1919 Intro|           society. He was the teacher of Simmias and Cebes, who became disciples
1920 Timae|               heaven, imagined, in their simplicity, that the clearest demonstration
1921 Intro|                Aristotle, as Proclus and Simplicius supposed, understood (Greek)
1922 Intro|            several places the writer has simplified the language of Plato, in
1923 Intro|              regards vices and crimes as simply involuntary; they are diseases
1924 Timae|                  for when two things are simultaneously raised by one and the same
1925 Intro|              disease been regarded, like sin, sometimes as a negative
1926 Intro|               probably the reason why he singles them out, as especially
1927 Intro|                Being under negatives. He sings of ‘Being unbegotten and
1928 Intro|             helped to form the Utopia of Sir Thomas More and the New
1929 Timae|                  were to be brothers and sisters, those who were of an elder
1930 Timae|                the priests who were most skilful in such matters, about antiquity,
1931 Intro|               part liquid, and part of a skinny nature, which was hardened
1932 Intro|               who show themselves in the sky, and those who retire from
1933 Timae|             invaders, and preserved from slavery those who were not yet subjugated,
1934 Intro|             matter is that which has the slenderest base, whereas that which
1935 Intro|               appeared fastest which was slowest, and that which overtook
1936 Timae|             their relative swiftness and slowness as they proceeded in their
1937 Timae|                at hearing this and said, smiling: Yes, Amynander, if Solon
1938 Timae|               consists of the purest and smoothest and oiliest sort of triangles,
1939 Timae|             congenial to the tongue, and smooths and oils over the roughness,
1940 Intro|              smell, taste, and touch. He soars into the heavens, and then,
1941 Intro|                 the original Pythagorean society. He was the teacher of Simmias
1942 Intro|             style, framed, not after the Socratic, but after some Pythagorean
1943 Intro|                  congenial to the tongue soften and harmonize them. The
1944 Intro|              These contradictions may be softened or concealed by a judicious
1945 Timae|                  and also against falls, softly and easily yielding to external
1946 Intro|                other existences, gives a solemn awe to them. And as in other
1947 Timae|              denser kinds of water, when solidified is called copper. There
1948      | somehow
1949 Intro|             interrupted by exceptions,—a somewhat unfortunate metaphysical
1950 Timae|                 upon a time Paethon, the son of Helios, having yoked
1951 Intro|             addressed them thus:— ‘Gods, sons of gods, my works, if I
1952 Timae|                navel, the other having a soothing influence, and restoring
1953 Intro|                to look for it; in North, South, East, or West; in the Islands
1954 Timae|               consider that God gave the sovereign part of the human soul to
1955 Timae|                 cosmos or glorious world spangled with them all over. And
1956 Timae|             regimen, as far as a man can spare the time, and not provoke
1957 Intro|               word ‘space’ or the Latin ‘spatium.’ Neither Plato nor any
1958 Intro|                language of Spinoza, ‘sub specie aeternitatis,’ they were
1959 Intro|                longer in motion. But the specific discovery that the blood
1960 Intro|           thousand years; he was able to speculate freely on the effects of
1961 Intro|                   So in modern times the speculative doctrine of necessity has
1962 Intro|               Language, two, exercised a spell over the beginnings of physical
1963 Timae|            simple life; and they were to spend in common, and to live together
1964 Intro|               the marrow of the neck and spine he formed the vertebrae,
1965 Intro|             courses appeared to describe spirals; and that appeared fastest
1966 Intro|                 Orientalism. And kindred spirits, like St. Augustine, even
1967 Intro|                 the fixed modes in which spiritual truths are revealed to him,
1968 Timae|                 in my turn a perfect and splendid feast of reason. And now,
1969 Intro|              whereas the inner motion is split into seven unequal orbits—
1970 Intro|          creation has less of freedom or spontaneity. The Creator in Plato is
1971 Intro|                 The best exercise is the spontaneous motion of the body, as in
1972 Intro|                lung, having a porous and springy nature like a sponge, and
1973 Intro|                 or beyond them. They had sprung up in the decline of the
1974 Intro|              sufficient air, and becomes stagnant and gangrened, and crumbling
1975 Timae|            entirely different nature was stamped upon its surface, it would
1976 Intro|              hinted though not expressly stated in the narrative of Plato?
1977 Intro|         Pythagoreans to know how far the statements contained in these fragments
1978 Timae|                Critias, with whom we are staying, or rather on our way thither,
1979 Timae|                 their own way and become steadier as time goes on, then the
1980 Intro|          ancients the merit of being the stepping-stones by which he has himself
1981 Intro|              When the lung, which is the steward of the air, is obstructed,
1982 Intro|                 and is only irritated by stimulants.’ He is of opinion that
1983 Intro|              whether true or false, have stimulated the minds of later generations
1984 Timae|            reason, and maddened with the sting of lust, seeks to gain absolute
1985 Intro|              preserved to us, chiefly in Stobaeus, a few in Boethius and other
1986 Timae|             vessel which is just off the stocks; they are locked firmly
1987 Intro|                 is said to be Crantor, a Stoic philosopher who lived a
1988 Intro|          contains an anticipation of the stoical life according to nature.
1989 Timae|                seed, he enclosed it in a stone-like casing, inserting joints,
1990 Timae|                the soul, they completely stopped the revolution of the same
1991 Intro|                 the courses of the soul, stopping the revolution of the same
1992 Intro|               bright substance, having a store of sweetness and also of
1993 Intro|               writers. Similar gossiping stories are told about the sources
1994 Intro|                or gliding waters, or the stormy wind; the motions produced
1995 Intro|          stronger heads among them, like Strabo and Longinus, were as little
1996 Timae|                primary triangles as were straight and smooth, and were adapted
1997 Intro|                  should not lay too much stress on Aristotle or the writer
1998 Intro|              attained by any other. Yet, strictly speaking—and the remark
1999 Intro|             philosophers and their wordy strife. He finds nothing in the
2000 Timae|                private or in public, and strifes and controversies arise,