[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. [↑]
[135] Meyer, ii, 9, 759 (§§ 5, 465). [↑]
[137] Jevons, Hist. of Greek Lit. 1886, p. 210. [↑]
[138] Compare Meyer, ii, § 502, as to the close resemblances between Pythagoreanism and Orphicism. [↑]