25.
[240] Ottfried Mueller, History of Greek Art, Sec.Sec. 115, 347.
[241] Oxford Prize Poems, Poem for 1812.
[242] [Greek: O men theos eis{~GREEK ANO TELEIA~} koutos de ouk, os tines uponousin, ektos tas
diakosmaeseas{~GREEK ANO TELEIA~} all en auta, olos en olo to kuklo, episkopos pasas geneses
kai kraseos ton olon.].--Clem. Alex. Cohort. ad gentes.
[243] Monotheism among the Greeks, translated in the Contemporary Review,
March, 1867. Victor Cousin, Fragments de Philosophie Ancienne.
[244] Quotations from Aristotle, in Rixner, I. Sec. 75.
[245] See Rixner, Zeller, and the poem of Empedocles on the Nature of
Things ([Greek: peri phaseos]), especially the commencement of the Third
Book.
[246] His famous doctrine, that "man is the measure of all things," meant
that there is nothing true but that which appears to man to be so at any
moment. He taught, as we should now say, the subjectivity of knowledge.
[247] Zeller, as before cited.
[248] Geschichte der Philosophie.
[249] The sentence which Plato wrote over his door, [Greek: oudeis
ageometraetos eioito], probably means, "Let no one enter who has not
_definite_ thoughts." So Goethe declared that _outline_ went deepest into
the mysteries of nature.
[250] For Proofs, see Ackermann, Cudworth, Tayler Lewis, and the
New-Englander, October, 1869.
[251] Page 28, German edition.
[252] Laws, X. 893.
[253] Timaeus, IX.
[254] Laws, IV. 715.
[255] Zeller, as above. Also Zeller, "Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics,"
translated by Reichel. London: Longmans, 1870.
[256] Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics, p. 140.
[257] Mr. Fergusson thinks the peristyle not intended for an ambulatory,
but is unable to assign any other satisfactory purpose.
[258] Illustrated Hand-Book of Architecture.
[259] Plutarch, quoted by Doellinger.
[260] Buckley's translation, in Bohn's Classical Library.
[261] Ibid.
[262] Republic, II. 17. See Doellinger's discussion of this subject, in
"The Gentile and the Jew," English translation, Vol. I. p. 125.
[263] Advancement of Learning.
[264] Ottfried Mueller has shown that some of these writings existed in the
time of Euripides.
[265] Cudworth's Intellectual System, I. 403 (Am. ed.). Rixner, Handbuch
der Geschichte der Philosophie, Anhang, Vol. I.
[266] Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Vol. IV. p. 71.
[267] Christianity and Greek Philosophy. By B. F. Cocker, D.D. New York:
Harper and Brothers. 1870.
[268] See
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