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228 learned commentator, "Platonem in Timæo quam maxime obscurum illustrare, hujus loci non est."

Note 5, p. 32. But, in the first place.] These critical objections cannot be fully realised without reference to the leading opinions and arguments of the Timæus, which, although, perhaps, at the time, regarded only as and now stand self-confuted as physics, are enshrined in words which shall endure, until mankind cease to find delight and instruction in pure and abstract studies. The first objection raised by Aristotle is to the ascription of magnitude to that anima (which is to be necessarily inferred from its being divisible,) as well as to the intelligence or mind, which is identified with it; for magnitude would imply a material entity, and matter conjoined with form and essence implies parts, and has parts cannot either be self-existent, or indefinite in duration. Another objection, much insisted upon, is the movement in a circle, which cannot, it is said, be the motion produced by the passions or appetites; but the chief topic is resumed, and the mind is shewn to be, like the thoughts which emanate from it, immaterial. Aristotle's subject, however, unlike that of the Timæus, was confined to the agent or principle, whatever it be, which imparts motion and other vital properties to matter.

Note 6, p. 33. Now, there are limits to practical thoughts.] The origin of whatever is original is in the