Ancient Greece; a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1913)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company · leaf 291
rst to use theword apxri), what he called the infinite or unconditioned{to a-rreipov), by which he probably meant matter not exactlyin a chaotic state, but with its elements (a-Toixeia) not yetdifferentiated. 1 But his apxv is really quite as materialisticas that of Thales, and is less conceivable.… … 55- Black-figured Vasesc. 700—500 See List of Illustrations and Note D 204 THE AGE OF PEISISTRATUS movement he has to imagine counteracting forces, such asheat and cold, dryness and moisture, in order to produce acosmos. His theory that hving things were evolved out ofdamp matter and that men as…
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