[129] Diog. Laërt. ix, 3 (§ 21). [↑]

[130] As to this see Windelband, Hist. Anc. Philos. pp. 91–92. [↑]

[131] Cp. Mackay, Progress of the Intellect, i. 340. [↑]

[132] “The difference between the Ionians and Eleatæ was this: the former endeavoured to trace an idea among phenomena by aid of observation; the latter evaded the difficulty by dogmatically asserting the objective existence of an idea” (Mackay, as last cited). [↑]

[133] Cp. Mackay, i, 352–53, as to the survival of veneration of the heavenly bodies in the various schools. [↑]

[134] Grote, i, 350. [↑]

[135] Meyer, ii, 9, 759 (§§ 5, 465). [↑]

[136] Id. §§ 6, 466. [↑]

[137] Jevons, Hist. of Greek Lit. 1886, p. 210. [↑]

[138] Compare Meyer, ii, § 502, as to the close resemblances between Pythagoreanism and Orphicism. [↑]