This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...(Diog. Laert. ix. i), and in his supercilious disregard for the learned like Hesiod and Pythagoras and Xenophanes and Hecataeus,2 no less than for the common people3 of his day. " Listen," says Heracleitus, " not to me, but to reason, and confess the true wisdom that 'All things are ONE.'" 4 " All is One, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...(Diog. Laert. ix. i), and in his supercilious disregard for the learned like Hesiod and Pythagoras and Xenophanes and Hecataeus,2 no less than for the common people3 of his day. " Listen," says Heracleitus, " not to me, but to reason, and confess the true wisdom that 'All things are ONE.'" 4 " All is One, the divided and the undivided, the begotten and the unbegotten, the mortal and the immortal, reason and eternity, father and son, God and justice."5 "Cold is hot, heat is cold, that which is moist is parched, that which is dried up is wet"1 "Good and evil are the same." 2 " Gods are mortal, men immortal: our life is their death, our death their life,"3 " Upward and downward are the same."4 " The beginning and the end are one."5 " Life and death, sleeping and waking, youth and age are identical." 6 1 See the fragments in Ritter and Preller's Hist. Phil. Graec., 93 and 94, A. B. Seventh edition. 2 Herad. Eph. Rell., xvi., ed. Bywater. ' ixooi5opos 'HpdneiTos. Timon ap. Diog. Laert., ix. I. Ou/c e/iu aa rov 6yov d/co Ttcoito. tlvtu. Heracl. Eph. Rell., i, 1 Hippolytus Ref. haer., ix, 9. This is what reason tells the philosopher. "All is ONE." The world is a unity of opposing forces (TraAi'irpoTTOc apfjiovtr KOafiov JKWnrip vpat; Koi To ou).7 "Join together whole and not whole, agreeing and different, harmonious and discordant. Out of all comes one: out of one all."8 " God is day-night, winter-summer, war-peace, repletion-want." The very rhythm of nature is strife. War, which men hate and the poets would banish, " is the father and lord of all."10 But " men are without understanding, they hear and hear not," n or " they hear and understand not." ia For they trust to their senses, which are "falsewitnesses."13 They see the...
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