The First Philosophers of Greece, Том 3Arthur Fairbanks K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1898 - 300 страници |
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... nature , while water is the first principle of the nature of what is moist . And there are some who think that the ancients , and they who lived long before the present generation , and the first students of the gods , had a similar ...
... nature , while water is the first principle of the nature of what is moist . And there are some who think that the ancients , and they who lived long before the present generation , and the first students of the gods , had a similar ...
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... nature would be an obscure ques- tion ; but Thales is said to have expressed this opinion . in regard to the first cause . Arist . de Coelo ii . 13 ; the earth rests on water . 294 a 28. Some say that We have ascertained that the oldest ...
... nature would be an obscure ques- tion ; but Thales is said to have expressed this opinion . in regard to the first cause . Arist . de Coelo ii . 13 ; the earth rests on water . 294 a 28. Some say that We have ascertained that the oldest ...
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... nature . . . ; accordingly they assume that water is the first principle of all things , and they assert that the earth rests on water . Thales is the first to have set on foot the investigation of nature by the Greeks ; although so ...
... nature . . . ; accordingly they assume that water is the first principle of all things , and they assert that the earth rests on water . Thales is the first to have set on foot the investigation of nature by the Greeks ; although so ...
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... natural to conclude that all things come from water as their first principle . Secondly , the fact that all plants are nourished by moisture and bear fruit , and unless they get moisture they wither away . Thirdly , the fact that the ...
... natural to conclude that all things come from water as their first principle . Secondly , the fact that all plants are nourished by moisture and bear fruit , and unless they get moisture they wither away . Thirdly , the fact that the ...
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... nature always moving or self - moving . Aet . v . 26 ; 438. Plants are living animals ; this is evident from the fact that they wave their branches and keep them extended , and they yield to attack and relax them freely again , so that ...
... nature always moving or self - moving . Aet . v . 26 ; 438. Plants are living animals ; this is evident from the fact that they wave their branches and keep them extended , and they yield to attack and relax them freely again , so that ...
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Страница 31 - In his opinion want is the process of arrangement, and satiety the process of conflagration. \ . 25. Fire lives in the death of earth, and air lives in the death of fire ; water lives in the death of air, and earth in that of water.
Страница 33 - Herakleitos, bring all things.' 35. Hesiod is the teacher of most men ; they suppose that his knowledge was very extensive, when in fact he did not know night and day, for they are one. 36. God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and hunger...
Страница 67 - Yes, and if oxen and horses or lions had hands, and could paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and make their bodies in the image of their several kinds.
Страница 29 - This order, the same for all things, no one of gods or men has made, but it always was, and is, and ever shall be, an ever-living fire, kindling according to fixed measure, and extinguished according to fixed measure.
Страница 55 - Monac. 195, p. 282. 129. (Herakleitos fittingly called religious rites) cures (for the soul). 130. They purify themselves by defiling themselves with blood, as if one who had stepped into the mud were to wash it off with mud. If any one of men should observe him doing so, he would think he was insane. And to these images they pray, just as if one -were to converse with men's houses, for they know not what gods and heroes are.
Страница 237 - TRANSLATION. 1. All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness ; for the small also was infinite. And when they were all together, nothing was clear and distinct because of their smallness ; for air and aether comprehended all things, both being infinite ; for these are present in everything, and are greatest both as to number and as to greatness.