CONTENTS.
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Grote, George
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Sense of vision
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Senses of hearing, smell, taste
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Empedokles declared that justice absolutely forbade the killing of anything that had life. His belief in the metempsychosis. Sufferings of life, are an expiation for wrong done during an antecedent life. Pretensions to magical power
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Complaint of Empedokles on the impossibility of finding out truth
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Theory of Anaxagoras denied — generation and destruction — recognised only mixture and severance of pre-existing kinds of matter
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Homœomeries — small particles of diverse kinds of matter, all mixed together
ib.
First condition of things all — the primordial varieties of matter were huddled together in confusion. Νοῦς or reason, distinct from all of them, supervened and acted upon this confused mass, setting the constituent particles in movement
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Movement of rotation in the mass, originated by Νοῦς on a small scale, but gradually extending itself. Like particles congregate together — distinguishable aggregates are formed
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Nothing (except Νοῦς) can be entirely pure or unmixed; but other things may be comparatively pure. Flesh, Bone, &c., are purer than Air or Earth
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Theory of Anaxagoras, compared with that of Empedokles
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Suggested partly by the phenomena of of animal nutrition
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Chaos common to both Empedokles and Anaxagoras: moving agency, different in one from the other theory
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Νοῦς, or mind, postulated by Anaxagoras — how understood by later writers — how intended by Anaxagoras himself
ib.
Plato and Aristotle blame Anaxagoras for deserting his own theory
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Astronomy and physics of Anaxagoras
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His geology, meteorology, physiology
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The doctrines of Anaxagoras were regarded as offensive and impious
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Diogenes of Apollonia recognises one primordial element
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Air was the primordial, universal element
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Air possessed numerous and diverse properties; was eminently modifiable