| Ezra Hall Gillett - 1874 - 456 páginas
...wild speculations of some of his predecessors as to the genesis of things. " "Wrongly," said he, " do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be ; for nothing conies into being or is destroyed : but all is an aggregation or secretion of pre-existent things."... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears - 1876 - 424 páginas
...equally opposed to the evidence of the senses. " Wrongly do the Greeks suppose," says Anaxagoras, " that aught begins, or ceases to be, for nothing comes...aggregation or secretion of pre-existent things, so that all-becoming might more correctly be called becoming-mixed, and all corruption becoming-separate" There... | |
| Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - 604 páginas
...most eminent of modern philosophic writers. Anaxagoras thus announces the principles of his system : " Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or...becoming-mixed, and all corruption becomingseparate." ' This idea recalls Spencer's definition of Evolution, "the progress from the simple, indefinite, and... | |
| Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - 602 páginas
...most eminent of modern philosophic writers. Anaxagoras thus announces the principles of his system : " Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or...becoming-mixed, and all corruption becomingseparate." ' This idea recalls Spencer's definition of Evolution, "the progress from the simple, indefinite, and... | |
| Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - 600 páginas
...no nearer hopes of ultimate success." And this from the most eminent of modern philosophic writers. or ceases to be ; for nothing comes into being or...becoming-mixed, and all corruption becomingseparate." ' This idea recalls Spencer's definition of Evolution, "the progress from the simple, indefinite, and... | |
| Harr Wagner - 1902 - 580 páginas
...into fire, and fire into all." Anaxagoras held that the universe, as a whole, is unchangeable. Thus he says, "Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins...so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption becoming separate." Pythagoras asserts that " number is the essence... | |
| Ida Freund - 1904 - 682 páginas
...II. LAVOISIER AND THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF MASS. " Wrongly do the Greeks tuppose that aught begint or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is...destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of pre-existing things ; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption,... | |
| Ida Freund - 1920 - 432 páginas
...tenets of their systems that as far as human agency goes, nothing is created and nothing is destroyed. Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or...destroyed ; but all is an aggregation or secretion of pre-existing things ; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption,... | |
| Asa Mahan - 2003 - 521 páginas
...substance, he held to be eternal; as organized, to be an event of time. "Wrongly do the Greeks,' he says, 'suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or ceases to be; but all is an aggregation or accretion of pre existent things; so that all becoming might... | |
| Madison Smartt Bell - 2005 - 250 páginas
...the body has gone to, and into what it has been received." And as early as 450 BC, Anaxagoras argued, "Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or...destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption,... | |
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