 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 488 страници
...rise, while other things come from its offspring. — Hipp. Ref. i. 7 (RP 21). "Just as," he said, "our soul, being air, holds us together, so do breath and air encompass the whole world." — Act. i. 3. 4 (RP 18). And the form of the air is as follows. Where it is most even, it is invisible... | |
 | Archibald Browning Drysdale Alexander - 1908 - 640 страници
...man does. " Just as our souls, being air," he says, in the only fragment that has come down to us, " holds us together, so do breath and air encompass the whole world." In representing air as the essential and animating principle of the universe, Anaximenes prepared the... | |
 | George Sidney Brett - 1912 - 420 страници
...Denker, i. (Einleitung). (p. 21) Thales : v. Siebeck, i. 35 (note). (p. 22) v. Burnet (Ed. ii. p. 79). " The primary substance bears the same relation to the life of the world as to that of man." This " marks the first beginnings of an interest in physiological matters." It is necessary not to... | |
 | Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) - 1913 - 752 страници
...-.ij-,;..-i M.:ir (a) ' Originally man was born from animals of another species.' • • ' (!>) ' Just as our soul, being air, holds us together, so do breath and air encompass the whole world.' ' Heracleitus says somewhere that all things pass and naught ; and comparing things to the current... | |
 | John Burnet - 1914 - 384 страници
...was influenced by the analogy of the microcosm and the macrocosm. " As our soul," he says, " which is air, holds us together, so do breath and air encompass the whole world." The world is thought of as breathing or inhaling air from the boundless mass outside it. This Air he spoke... | |
 | Gladys Mary Norman Davis - 1914 - 296 страници
...or vapour as the primitive substance. He also said that " Just as our soul, being air (ie vapour), holds us together, so do breath and air encompass the whole world," showing that he recognized the same resemblance between the microcosm 1 The Vedantic philosophy, which... | |
 | Herbert Ernest Cushman - 1918 - 486 страници
...Both Thales and Anaximenes still held to the traditional polytheism of the Greek Epic. Anaximander 1 " Just as our soul, being air, holds us together, so do breath and air encompass the whole world." rises above them in this respect. This conception of the Unlimited, to which his scientific search... | |
 | John Burnet - 1920 - 384 страници
...was influenced by the analogy of the microcosm and the macrocosm. " As our soul," he says, " which is air, holds us together, so do breath and air encompass the whole world." The world is thought of as breathing or inhaling air from the boundless mass outside it. This Air he spoke... | |
 | Margaret Elizabeth Jane Taylor - 1924 - 158 страници
...which has survived from his work he compares the world to a living being. ' Just as our soul, which is air, holds us together, so do breath and air encompass the whole world.' Breath and life are closely connected. The life in the human body is breath and is sustained by inhaling... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 2008 - 932 страници
...condensation. He thought that the earth is shaped like a round table, and that air encompasses everything: "Just as our soul, being air, holds us together, so do breath and air encompass the whole world." It seems that the world breathes. Anaximenes was more admired in antiquity than Anaximander,. though... | |
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Just as our soul, being air, holds us together, so do breath and air encompass the whole world. 
