[206] Hist. An., IX., xxxix., sub fin.
[207] De Part. An., III., iv., sub in.
[208] This characterisation applies neither to the Antigone nor to the Oedipus in Colônus, the first and the last extant dramas of Sophocles. The reason is that the one is still half Aeschylean, and the other distinctly an imitation of Euripides.
[209] Cf. the memorable declaration of Mr. F. Pollock: ‘To me it amounts to a contradiction in terms to speak of unknowable existence or unknowable reality in an absolute sense. I cannot tell what existence means if not the possibility of being known or perceived.’—Spinoza, p. 163.
[210] Aristoteles von d. Zeugung u. Entwickelung d. Thiere. Aubert u. Wimmer, Einleitung, p. 15.
[211] De Gen. An., II., iii., 736, b, 1.
[212] Ibid., I., xviii., 725, b, 25.
[213] De Respir., 477, a, 18.
[214] De Part. An., I., vii., sub. in.
[215] Ibid., II., x., 656, a, 4.