英语词汇“Empedocles”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

The first recorded experiment on air was performed by a physician' named Empedocles, who flourished around 450 B.C. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, Aristotle believed Empedocles’s theory that everything was made out of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Empedocles argued that it could only be air. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Empedocles performed his experiment with a household implement people had used for centuries, the so-called clepsydra or “water thief,” which was used as a kitchen ladle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Empedocles was, at least in part, a Pythagorean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Empedocles is said to have died in an apotheotic fit by leaping into the hot lava at the summit caldera of the great volcano of Aetna. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Xenophanes wasn’t the only ancient Greek to hold such a view: subsequent thinkers proposed similar theories, including the vegetarian Empedocles and the Stoics. We're all gonna die! How the idea of human extinction has reshaped our world 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z

In the 5th century, over 100,000 people lived there and, according to the philosopher Empedocles, they would “party as if they’ll die tomorrow, and build as if they’ll live forever”. Huge Atlas statue to guard Sicily's Temple of Zeus once more 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Aristotle was not the first to conceptualize an elemental system: he borrowed from the fifth-century-bc pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles. More than 2,000 years of elements: a prehistory of the periodic table 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Pythagoras and Empedocles were quoted as the founders of this branch of ethics. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z

Lucretius speaks of Empedocles in terms scarcely less exaggerated than those which he applied to Epicurus. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z

Like the Empedocles of Matthew Arnold, baffled in the ineffable longing to escape themselves, these bearers of the divine light are haled unwillingly Back to this meadow of calamity, This uncongenial place, this human life. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z

To his left Pythagoras is writing on his knee, and near him, with ink and pen, is Empedocles. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z

Traces of an idea of Evolution may be found in various crude forms in nearly all the earlier Greek philosophers, especially in Anaximander, Heraclitus, Democritus, Empedocles, and later in Aristotle. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z

Hippocrates and Empedocles attributed digestion to the putrefaction of food. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z

Many legends are told of his magic arts, one of which, it will be remembered, Matthew Arnold makes an occasion of some fine reflections in his poem Empedocles in Etna. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z

According to Empedocles, the four primal elements, earth, air, fire and water, are worked upon by the forces of love and discord. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z

Democritus who puts the world on chance, Diogenes, Anaxagoras, and Thales, Zeno, Empedocles, and Heraclitus, . The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z

But Stevenson, braver to confront life than Empedocles, would not have leapt into the crater! Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z

Varro also is mentioned by ancient writers, in connexion with Empedocles and Lucretius, as the author of a metrical work 'De Rerum Natura4.' The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z

He also accepted the theory broached by Empedocles as to the survival of fit and capable forms after life had arrived at these through the processes of spontaneous generation and the production of monstrosities. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z

Empedocles gave his whole body at Catana to the fires of Etna: what mental resolution! Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z

Empedocles is only the clearest voice among them—they all say the same thing, if a man will but open his ears. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z

This arbitrary assumption of four elements, first made by Empedocles, persisted in the popular imagination throughout the Middle Ages and is, like other cosmological ideas of antiquity, sometimes reflected in the poetry of the time. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z

But the great intellectual life of such men as Democritus, Empedocles, or Anaxagoras, escapes our notice in the more familiar studies of classical literature. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z

This is a feature of the philosophy of Empedocles, who flourished in the fifth century B. C. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z

"It was Empedocles who taught us that earth, air, fire, and water must form the limits of our knowledge; but who believes him now?" The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z

Similar boasts occur in the poems of Empedocles and of Taliesin. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z

But I think a more pertinent question would have been: How can either Empedocles or, as is usually alleged, Landor have anything to do with the passage referred to? The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z

Didactic poetry obtained in Lucretius and Virgil ampler volume and profounder meaning than in their Greek models, Empedocles and Hesiod. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z

The advance of Persia westward had led to migrations of Greeks to the south of Italy and Sicily, and it was at Agrigentum, in that island, that Empedocles was born about 490. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z

Empedocles tries to explain the genesis of organic beings, and, according to Lange, anticipates the idea of Darwin that adaptations abound, because it is their nature to perpetuate themselves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z

Most people are extremely like one's self, and choosing among relics would be supposed to first take one of the sandals of Empedocles, fabled to have been cast forth by Aetna. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z

Thus Xenophanes gave to the earth infinitely extended roots, against which Empedocles uses such arguments as we should use now. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z

The work of Empedocles and the kindred works of Xenophanes and Parmenides are inspired not by the passion of art but by the enthusiasm of discovery. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z

Anaxagoras, who was a contemporary of Empedocles, interests us because he was the first philosopher to repair to Athens, and the first sufferer for truth’s sake of whom we have record in Greek annals. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z

Empedocles, with Madness sought the Flame, And thought by that; to gain immortal Fame. The Art of Architecture A Poem In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry 2011-06-17T02:00:16.870Z

Empedocles on Etna, also accompanied by other poems, followed in 1852, and another volume of poems the year after. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z

Our last view of Sicily gives us a fine glimpse of Etna, with the crater into which Empedocles threw himself, 400 b.c. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z

He thus seems to stand midway between the spiritual aspirations of Empedocles and the negation of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z

Even at a recent period similar dispositions are evident in Plato, Socrates, Empedocles, and many others, above all, the poets. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z

Empedocles held earth, water, fire, air, as the four fundamental and indestructible elements from whose union and separation everything that exists is formed. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z

His Merope, a play on the Greek model, is frigid; and fine as is Empedocles on Etna, its merits are in the thought and the beautiful verse rather than the dramatic structure. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z

In versifying the philosophical system of Epicurus, Lucretius appears to have taken Empedocles as his model. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z

But although Aristotle acknowledges the poetical genius of Empedocles by applying to him the epithet Ὁμηρικός, he denies to his composition the title of a poem. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z

I allow, that Ocellus Lucanus and Empedocles have arranged everything by moving antagonist forces, but what shall I gather from it? A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z

And at once these powers send him a happy inspiration, perhaps a happy reminiscence of Empedocles. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z

With regard to action, Arnold himself withdrew Empedocles on Etna shortly after its publication, on the ground that it was a poem in which all was to be endured and nothing to be done. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z

These writers, Empedocles and Ennius, were probably Lucretius’ chief guides; and though the most original of the Latin poets, many of his finest passages may be traced to the Greeks. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z

The conception of Nature was no longer mystical or purely imaginative as it had been in the age of Empedocles. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z

Hark to the words he puts into the mouth of Empedocles: And yet what days were those, Parmenides! The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z

In the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. there was a distinct school of philosophical epic, and we distinguish the names of Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles as the leaders of it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z

Incidentally he found little poetry in Empedocles, who in spite of his metre was primarily a physicist. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z

If Lucretius has in any degree benefited by the works of Empedocles, he has in return been most lavish and eloquent in his commendations. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z

There are, according to Empedocles, four ultimate elements, four primal divinities, of which are made all structures in the world—fire, air, water, earth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z

Matthew Arnold, with all his scholarship and culture, never succeeded in doing this, even in such fine work as A Strayed Reveler or Empedocles on Etna. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z

Empedocles, lamenting his connection with this corporeal world, pathetically exclaimed:— For this I weep, for this indulge my woe, That e'er my soul such novel realms should know. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites 2011-01-28T03:00:23.447Z

Plato had the good sense to write in prose instead of following the ridiculous method of versifying of the early Greek philosophers, like Parmenides and Empedocles. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z

Lucretius expresses a similar enthusiasm for Homer, Ennius, Empedocles, and Epicurus; and by Virgil the same feeling is, though not directly expressed, yet profoundly felt towards Homer and Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil

It is in the aggregation and segregation of elements thus arising that Empedocles, like the atomists, finds the real process which corresponds to what is popularly termed growth, increase or decrease. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z

Recommends translations of classic and modern foreign authors, 85.Epictetus, the Greek stoic, 37.Empedocles on Etna, one of Matthew Arnold's finest poems, 32.Euripides, Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z

Surely it is not in Empedocles on Etna, and surely it is not in Merope. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of"

We do not despise the philosophy of Socrates and Plato, because it does not come to us clothed in verse, like the speculations of Thales, Parmenides, and Empedocles. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

He would thus seem to have looked on Lucretius with something of that veneration with which Lucretius regards Epicurus, Empedocles, and Ennius, and with which Dante long after regarded Virgil himself. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil

Hence the precepts of morality are with Empedocles largely dietetic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z

With them came philosophical poems, such as those of Xenophanes and Empedocles; the epical history of Herodotus; the dramatic philosophy of Plato. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip"

In 1852 he published another volume under the same initial, Empedocles on Etna, and other Poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of"

The town is also famous as the birthplace of the philosopher Empedocles. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide

But the detailed development which Empedocles gave to this principle was by no means satisfactory. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

It is not easy to harmonize these quasi-scientific theories with the theory of transmigration of souls which Empedocles seems to expound. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z

This man, Joukahainen, provoked him to a trial of song, boasting, like Empedocles, or like one of the old Celtic bards, that he had been all things. Custom and Myth New Edition

Empedocles is as undramatic a poem perhaps as was ever written in dramatic form, but studded with lyrical beauties of a very high order. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of"

The great poem of Parmenides On Nature and those of Empedocles exist only in fragments, but enough remains to show that these poets carried on the didactic method in mythology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus"

For Empedocles there are only four ultimate kinds of matter, qualitatively distinguished. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Looking at the opposition between these and the ordinary opinions, we are not surprised that Empedocles notes the limitation and narrowness of human perceptions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z

Sages, neighbors of the gods, of whom Empedocles was the last representative, had supposed, that in the beginning of things, those that loved were one. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern

I have always admired Empedocles, who cast himself into Etna. Ancestors A Novel

Shut in forever from the sunshine, I dip my brush in the shadows that surround me, for, like Empedocles,— ... Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part

Empedocles had assumed four different kinds of matter. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Empedocles therefore conceived a double or binary elementary principle; and Aristotle developed this idea a stage further, stating two sets of binary antagonistic principles, namely “dry-wet” and “hot-cold.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z

The list of Eleatic philosophers is doubtfully closed by the name of Empedocles of Agrigentum, who in legend almost rivals Pythagoras. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition

Empedocles wrote his physics in verse, and Oppian his history of animals. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century

We were saying to our friend Dr. Empedocles that we kept our enthusiasms green by never taking anything very seriously. The So-called Human Race

Empedocles had believed in four ultimate and underived kinds of matter. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

In the early age of Greece he might have been Empedocles or Heraclitus; he could never have been Spinoza or Kant. A Modern Symposium

One hundred and fifty years later Empedocles announced a new thought. The Meaning of Evolution

It has forbidden him, he tells us, to reprint Empedocles—a poem undoubtedly containing defects and even excesses, but containing also these lines: And yet what days were those, Parmenides! English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century

Empedocles appears to you to be mad; but to me he seems to utter words very worthy of the subjects of which he speaks. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero

Empedocles had taken as his moving forces, Love and Hate, mythical and fanciful on the one hand, and yet purely physical on the other. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

The theories of Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, etc. are refuted; i. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors

She is, if not "the whole" good—which, as Empedocles said long ago, few can boast to find,—good, and nothing but good, except pretty, and other things which are parts or forms of goodness. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century

To this class of situations, poetically faulty as it appears to me, that of Empedocles, as I have endeavoured to represent him, belongs; and I have therefore excluded the Poem from the present collection. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century

Leucippus thought that there was a plenum, and a vacuum; Democritus resembled him in this idea, but was more copious on other matters: Empedocles adopts the theory of the four ordinary and commonly known elements. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero

It is true that his immediate successors, Empedocles and Democritus, seized upon this, and built their philosophies upon it. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Alfarabi and Avicenna are also important, but other writings, such as those of Empedocles, Pythagoras, Hermes, Porphyry, represent a pre-Aristotelian philosophy which is obsolete, and are a waste of time. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy

Empedocles once described his dream of retribution for the last unutterable offence. Apologia Diffidentis

Empedocles He ever loved the Theban story well! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

Now that Thales, Pythagoras, Xenophanes, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were all believers in the existence of one supreme, uncreated, eternal God, has been, we think, clearly shown by Cudworth. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

This thought now forms the first principle of Empedocles, and of his successors, Anaxagoras, and the Atomists. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

The ideas projected thus early on the modern world were immature and abortive, like those headless trunks and zoöphytic members of half-moulded humanity which, in the vision of Empedocles, preceded the birth of full-formed man. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07

Empedocles indeed, it is said, gave himself out to be a deity exiled from heaven, and was apparently worshipped as such. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'

Thou must be viewless to Empedocles; Save mine, he must not meet a human eye. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

And so this new Empedocles Upon the blazing pile one sees, Self-doom'd by purest folly To fate so melancholy. A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine

And we do hear vaguely of physical particles in the doctrine of Empedocles, but no definition is given of their nature, and no clear conception is formed of their character. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Such a principle had been suggested as early as the time of Empedocles, but it remained for Darwin to establish it with an unanswerable array of observation and experimentation. The Approach to Philosophy

Empedocles says of the elements: They remain ever the same, but yet by combining their forces Become transformed into men and the numberless beings besides. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity

A long pause, during which Empedocles remains motionless, plunged in thought. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

To wander from our destined tracks— There cannot be a vainer wish; But this Empedocles of wax, That melted in chafing-dish Was truly not a greater fool Than he of whom we read at school. A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine

Lastly, though there are in Empedocles traces of the doctrine that the qualities of things depend on the position and arrangement of their particles, this idea is not consistently developed. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Although the first Greek philosophers, such men as Thales, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Empedocles, were clearly aware of their distinction and high calling, it by no means follows that they were good judges of themselves. The Approach to Philosophy

Empedocles therefore must come to the conclusion that the sage finds again the Divine Primordial Unity, hidden in the world by a spell, and entangled in the meshes of love and hatred. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity

Empedocles would say so, did he deign; But he still lets the people, whom he scorns, Gape and cry wizard at him, if they list. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

And Empedocles the naturalist is supposed to have driven away the pestilence from that district, by having closed up a mountain gorge that was prejudicial to health by admitting the south wind to the plains. Plutarch's Morals

All becoming is explained by Empedocles as the result of motion of material particles. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Empedocles, the Strayed Reveller, even the Forsaken Merman, all these are expressions of purely personal feeling—are so many p. 86metamorphoses of Arnold. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation

But if man finds the divine, he must himself be divine, for Empedocles takes the point of view that a being is only cognised by its equal. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity

Empedocles Hark! what sound was that Rose from below? Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

And so Empedocles calls Aphrodite Life-giving,89 and Sophocles calls her Fruitful, both very appropriate epithets. Plutarch's Morals

The Atomists, therefore, maintain the essential position of Empedocles, after eliminating the inconsistencies which we have just noted. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

These views fit in with the doctrines of Empedocles, so that we may perhaps even venture to regard this work as a surviving document of the Sicilian school. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

What then are the things in the world from Empedocles' point of view? Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity

Empedocles And lie thou there, My laurel bough! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

Empedocles, one of the early disciples of Pythagoras, said that he inhabited a female body in his preceding existence. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution

Anaxagoras's theory of perception is the opposite of the theories of Empedocles and the Atomists. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

And Empedocles proceeds to the great evolutionary deduction, the clear prevision of Darwin’s philosophy, that fit and unfit arise alike, but that what is fit to survive does survive and what is unfit perishes. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

Empedocles expresses his fundamental conviction in Greek form by means of images which border on myth. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity

But no, this heart will glow no more; thou art A living man no more, Empedocles! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

EMPEDOCLES.—Empedocles was a native of Agrigentum, a Greek colony in Sicily. A Short History of Greek Philosophy

This characteristically Indian doctrine was held by the Pythagoreans, from whom it passed to Empedocles and Plato. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Empedocles spoke of the ‘four roots’ of things, and by this he meant to imply that these four forms of matter were equally original and altogether disparate. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

In Empedocles' theory of evolution, the vegetable world preceded the animal. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

Empedocles All is still save for the far, faint step of Akron on the stair, and the still fainter murmur from the streets. The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays

Empedocles was a man of high family, and he exercised the influence which his position and his abilities secured him in promoting and maintaining the liberty of his fellow-countrymen. A Short History of Greek Philosophy

Empedocles certainly attained to the idea of an efficient cause, for he named as moving forces, harmony and discord, love and hate. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Man, as Empedocles and others had taught, was ‘an exile and vagabond from God’; his body was his tomb; he is clothed in ‘an alien garment of flesh’. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

Empedocles stayed his feet among the groves of Etna to hear it. The Call of the Blood

Empedocles Be tranquil, child, I am no god, only a physician come to heal you. The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays

"Eager to be deemed a god, Empedocles coldly threw himself in burning Etna." A Short History of Greek Philosophy

Later philosophers also gave different accounts of it, Heracleitus thinking it was fire, Empedocles the four elements, Anaxagoras an indefinite number of kinds of matter. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

The views of Empedocles, and especially his doctrine that regarded the heart as the main site of the pneuma, though rejected by the Coan school as a whole, were not without influence on Ionia. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

To his left, Pythagoras is writing on his knee, and near him, with ink and pen, is Empedocles. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art

Empedocles Nay, 'tis not so strange as that, and yet 'tis stranger. The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays

Foremost among them is Empedocles of Agrigentum, child of the island with the triple capes, a land wondrous deemed in many wise, and worthy to be viewed of all men. A Short History of Greek Philosophy

Such a poem as that of Empedocles, who unfolded his philosophical system in metre, is not, in fact, poetry at all. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Empedocles alone, who was a biologist like himself, and the founder of a medical school, finds favour in his eyes. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

Since the time of the Greek philosopher Empedocles, fire, earth, air, and water have been popularly called the four elements; when used alone, however, ‘the element’ commonly means ‘the air.’ Milton's Comus

Empedocles The arm drawn downward by the heavy golden bracelet is cold, yet soft and yielding like a sleep. The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays

The correction of the one sense by the others, and of all by reason, this Empedocles deemed the surest road to knowledge. A Short History of Greek Philosophy

The foundation of the philosophy of Anaxagoras is the same as that of Empedocles and the Atomists. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Anaxagoras admitted the existence of ultimate elementary particles, as Empedocles did, from the combinations whereof all material phenomena resulted. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

Not a few held, with Empedocles, that human life is a penal state, the doom of such immortal souls as for guilt have been disgraced and expelled from heaven. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

Empedocles Did you not see new things or new lands or old dead faces, for you have been gone a month? The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays

Somewhat prosaically summing up the teaching of Empedocles, Aristotle says that he thus posited six first principles in nature—four material, two motive or efficient. A Short History of Greek Philosophy

The philosophy of Empedocles is eclectic in character. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Empedocles even held that souls went into plants. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

There is a Greek story that Empedocles, "after a sacred festival, was drawn up to heaven in a splendor of celestial effulgence." The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

Empedocles The power of a thought, that is the real wonder! The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays

These inconsistencies of doctrine, which Aristotle notes as faults in Empedocles, are perhaps rather proofs of the philosophic value of his conceptions. A Short History of Greek Philosophy

Empedocles here too follows Parmenides, and interprets his doctrine in his own way. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

This is the reputed site of the observatory of Empedocles, the poet and philosopher, who is fabled to have thrown himself into the crater of Ætna to immortalize his name. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two

The pre existence of the soul, whether taught by Pythagoras, sung by Empedocles, dreamed by Fludd, or contended for by Beecher, is the principal foundation of the belief in the metempsychosis. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

Empedocles How say you, thirty days! and there is no feature of corruption? The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays

So, to Empedocles there are four elements, yet in the eternal perfection, the silent reign of Love, there are none of them. A Short History of Greek Philosophy

This leads Empedocles at once to a doctrine of elements. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

The reported luxury of the Sikeliot cities in this age is, in the double-edged saying of Empedocles, connected with one of their noblest tastes. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two

Thus the philosophical poems of Xenophanes, Parmenides, and 172 Empedocles belonged essentially to a transitional stage of human culture. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series

Empedocles And have you made the tests of death? The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays

The systems of such men may die, but such deaths mean, as Empedocles said of the ordinary deaths of things, only an infinity of new births. A Short History of Greek Philosophy

The philosophy of Empedocles is therefore to be considered as merely transitional in character. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Eight or nine years ago he had a sudden passion for Empedocles, whose fragments he had found collected and translated by Mr. Leonard, an American. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters

It belongs really to the succession of Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Empedocles. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series

It is said also that the philosopher Empedocles sought fame and death by casting himself into the fiery crater. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography

In Thales, Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Empedocles we have been touching hands with an apostolic succession of great men and great thinkers and great poets—men of noble life and lofty thoughts, true prophets and revealers. A Short History of Greek Philosophy

Thus Thales asserted that the ultimate reality is water, Anaximander indefinite matter, Anaximenes air, the Pythagoreans number, the Eleatics Being, Heracleitus fire, Empedocles the four elements, Democritus atoms, and so on. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

He makes Empedocles, the poet-philosopher, climb the summit of the mountain, gaze for the last time on the realm of nature spread around, and apostrophise the stars above and the volcanic fires beneath his feet. Nature Mysticism

Yet he chose the vehicle of hexameter verse, and trammelled his genius with limitations which Empedocles, four hundred years before, must have found almost intolerable. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series

Empedocles on AEtna might have been Empedocles in his room at Catana, and a dagger or a cup of hemlock would have answered all purposes equally well with a plunge in the burning crater. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc

It would stir the political bile or the physical spleen of a drab or a Tory To hear critics disputing my claim to Empedocles, Maud, and the Laboratory. The Heptalogia

And this is the first basic principle of Empedocles. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

The old speculations of Empedocles that love and hate are the motive forces in all things gleams out in a new light. Nature Mysticism

Lastly, Empedocles, who held the existence of our four material elements and two principles of movement, said that the soul was composed of these. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition

Powerful as is much of the language which he places in the mouth of Empedocles, he has failed to represent him as in a condition in which suicide is the natural result. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc

Empedocles, who distinguished himself in philosophy, was a contemporary of David, while Pythagoras lived in the days of Solomon, son of David, and acquired Wisdom from the treasury of prophethood. Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

This is the second basic principle of Empedocles. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

He had done the same with Empedocles on Etna, and other Poems in 1852. Matthew Arnold

Firstly, because, both in Phys. viii and in De Coelo i, text 101, he premises some opinions, as those of Anaxagoras, Empedocles and Plato, and brings forward reasons to refute them. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition

It is not therefore the actual fate of Empedocles which fails to interest us, but we are unable to feel that Mr. Arnold's account of him is the true account. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc

Thus Empedocles, Lucretius, and the author of “Vestiges of Creation,” all found out Darwinism before Mr. Darwin. Lost Leaders

The word "elements," indeed, is of later invention, and Empedocles speaks of the elements as "the roots of all." A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Empedocles himself is sometimes dreadfully tedious; but the part of Callicles throughout is lavishly poetical. Matthew Arnold

He had done his best; and, like another Empedocles, threw himself into AEtna, to ensure immortality. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution

Empedocles, as we all know, was a Sicilian philosopher, who, out of discontent with life, or from other cause, flung himself into the crater of Mount AEtna. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc

The awful column began to change its effect from terror to fascination, and I knew how Empedocles felt when he flung himself into the burning Aetna. Among the Forces

Empedocles was therefore the originator of the familiar classification of the four elements. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

But Empedocles itself was only represented by some scraps, mainly grouped as The Harp-Player on Etna. Matthew Arnold

The ideas projected thus early on the modern world were immature and abortive, like those headless trunks and zoophitic members of half-molded humanity which, in the vision of Empedocles, preceded the birth of full-formed man. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots

No philosopher since Heraclitus and Empedocles had asserted so strongly that "Strife is the father of all things." Christian Mysticism

From the Italian school of philosophy, the expression passed, in this signification, into the language of those early poets p 71 of nature, Parmenides and Empedocles, and from thence into the works of prose writers. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1

Now we saw that the philosophy of Empedocles was based upon an attempt to reconcile the doctrine of Parmenides with the doctrine of Heracleitus. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

In the definitive edition indeed, she is not with these but with Empedocles on Etna, a rather unlucky contrast. Matthew Arnold

Empedocles said that "the mind could only conceive of fire by being fire." The Function of the Poet and Other Essays

This man, Joukahainen, provoked him to a trial of song, boasting, like Empedocles, or like one of the old Celtic bards, that he had been all things. Custom and Myth

Empedocles, while he was ambitious of being esteemed an immortal god, in cold blood leaped into burning Aetna. The Works of Horace

Secondly, the moving forces of Empedocles, Love and Hate, are fanciful and mythological. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Of Empedocles it is not necessary to speak again: Thyrsis could not but charm. Matthew Arnold

The former had music and architecture and other sciences among his accomplishments; the latter spread out in literature, as "Sohrab and Rustum," "Empedocles on Etna," "Tristram and Iseult," as well as "Balder Dead" attest. The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature

It is found underlying the magnificent civilization of ancient Egypt, and from thence it traveled to the Western world being held as the highest truth by such teachers as Pythagoras, Empedocles, Plato, Virgil and Ovid. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga

The next year the narrative poem, The Sick King in Bokhara, came out, and was followed in turn by a third volume in 1853, under the title of Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems

Hence it was impossible that the philosophy of mechanism and materialism should stand still in the position in which Empedocles left it. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

It contained, like its predecessor, such of his earlier work as he chose to republish and had not yet republished, chiefly from the Empedocles volume. Matthew Arnold

Taking the four elements of Empedocles, he says that three of them are passive, or suffering, elements while only fire is active, and that not wholly. The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala

Thus it is that Empedocles taught: By earth earth we perceive; by water, water; by aether, aether; fire, by destructive fire; by friendship, friendship; and strife by bitter strife. Simon Magus

Empedocles on Etna, a half-autobiographical drama, is in some respects a striking poem. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems

This is the logical development of the tentative mechanism of Empedocles. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

The brave Empedocles, defying fools, Pronounced the word that mortals hate to hear— "I am divine, I am not mortal made; I am superior to my human weeds." Poems Household Edition

To this class of situations, poetically faulty as it appears to me, that of Empedocles, as I have endeavored to represent him, belongs; and I have therefore excluded the poem from the present collection. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold

After an hour's repose, proceeded downwards, visited the Philosopher's Tower, as it is called, which tradition says was constructed by Empedocles while he was studying the various phenomena of Etna. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 568, September 29, 1832

After Empedocles, who divined that Eros evolved the worlds from Chaos, metaphysics have not advanced one step. Without Dogma

Though these terms may have an idealistic sound, Empedocles conceives them as entirely physical and material forces. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Do not throw yourself, O traveller, into Etna, like Empedocles, but be taken by the camera standing on the edge of the crater! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861

He is the subject of Arnold's early poetical drama, Empedocles on Etna, which he later suppressed for reasons which he states in the Preface to the Poems of 1853. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold

Still, it must be remembered that, whether consistently or not, Empedocles produced an elaborate work on the Nature of Things, Not Properly a Pantheist. to which Lucretius makes eloquent and earnest acknowledgments. Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern

I can understand now how centuries after Empedocles there came Schopenhauer and Hartmann. Without Dogma

The date of his birth, the date of his death, and his place of residence, are alike unknown, but it is believed that he was a contemporary of Empedocles and Anaxagoras. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Hippocrates, his precursors, Empedocles and Democritus, and Pliny, Aristotle, and Galen, have all described monsters, although in extravagant and ridiculous language. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

Anaximander, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and, greatest of all, Aristotle, as we have seen, developed them, making their way at times by guesses toward truths since established by observation. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

ACRON, a Greek physician, born at Agrigentum in Sicily, was contemporary with Empedocles, and must therefore have lived in the 5th century before Christ. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28

Plutarch quotes Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Aristotle, and Plato in support of his hypothesis of the Two Principles, and refers to Plato's Third Principle. Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations

Now up to the present point the philosophy of Anaxagoras does not rise above the previous philosophies of Empedocles and the Atomists. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Empedocles of Agrigentum, a sort of magician and high-priest, almost a deity, whose life and death are but little known, appears to have possessed an encyclopaedic brain. Initiation into Philosophy

On the same shelf were Thomas the Rhymer's green velvet shoes, and the brazen shoe of Empedocles which was thrown out of Mount AEtna. A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")

Empedocles ascribed all things to fire, air, earth, and water, which are wrought into different bodies by "love" and "hate;" or, as we should say, attraction and repulsion. Outline of Universal History

The only Greek poets mentioned by him are Homer and Empedocles. Latin Literature

His immediate successors, Empedocles and Democritus, seized upon the materialistic aspect of his thought, and developed it. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Pythagoras, like Empedocles, was a sort of magician or god. Initiation into Philosophy

Empedocles, among others, in direct opposition to these, affirms, that "like aims at like." Ethics

Empedocles attributed its state of rest to centrifugal force by the rapid circular movement of the heavens, as water is stationary in a pail when whirled round by a string. History of Astronomy

Whether it be so, ask Pythagoras, Socrates, Empedocles, and our master Ortuinus. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3

O companion! if I could mount up as well as I can get down, I had been long ere this above the sphere of the moon with Empedocles. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2

His poem on "The Nature of Things" is in imitation of that of Empedocles. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities

Empedocles delivered the people of Selinus from a pestilence by draining a marsh, and was hailed as a Demigod. The Pleasures of Life

Hesiod, Parmenides, and Empedocles were, indeed, cited as examples. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius

The idea of Reincarnation was spread widely in Greece and Italy by Pythagoras, Empedocles, Plato, Virgil and Ovid. Five Lectures on Reincarnation

Empedocles has also been mentioned as a disciple of Pythagoras. Lives of the Necromancers

Other philosophers belonging to Iona or Elea may be referred to these schools, as Heraclitus, Empedocles, Democritus, and Anaxagoras, whose doctrines, however, vary from those of the representatives of the philosophical systems above named. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities

Sometimes, indeed, it happens that a philosopher's fame outlives even his works themselves; as has happened with Thales, Empedocles, Heraclitus, Democritus, Parmenides, Epicurus and many others. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature

Some of these are precisely the powers ascribed to Medea, Empedocles, and Simon Magus, in passages already cited. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1

Three years later he published Empedocles on Etna and other Poems; but only a few copies of these volumes were sold, and presently both were withdrawn from circulation. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World

Empedocles, born 444 B.C., like others of the Eleatics, complained of the imperfection of the senses, and looked for truth only in reason. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations

As said the first Greek philosopher, Empedocles, who 560 B.C. adumbrated the "survival of the fittest" theory of Darwin, they are the result of ceaseless trials of nature. American Big Game in Its Haunts

Empedocles came likewise, who looked sodden and roasted all over. Trips to the Moon

Thus he refuses to classify as poetry the scientific writings which Empedocles had composed in meter as well as the histories of Herodotus, even if he had written them in verse. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism

Hence, referring to bygone times, we are told by Empedocles that "there are two destinies for the souls of highest virtue —to pass either into trees or into the bodies of lions." The Folk-lore of Plants

But it can hardly be doubted, that magic in its grossest and most ridiculous sense was practised in Egypt, at least among some of the vulgar, long before Pythagoras or Empedocles travelled into that country. Thaumaturgia

At this moment of depression—I was very near tears—who should come up behind me but Empedocles the physicist? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

“You are very kind,” said I, “most noble Empedocles, and when I fly back to Greece, I shall not forget to pay my devotions to you in the tunnel of my chimney every new moon.” Trips to the Moon

Empedocles also came, scorched all over and baked right through; but not all his entreaties could gain him admittance. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

Empedocles found no significance in life whatever except as an unsteady play of love and hate, of attraction and repulsion, of assimilation and the assertion of difference. A Modern Utopia

Nor would I rank with Sam that man who went Down into Aetna's womb—Empedocles, I think he called himself. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor

Empedocles began gradually to disappear, and at last vanished in smoke. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

This conversation ended, Empedocles vanished into smoke, and I saw no more of him. Trips to the Moon

It was now about time to return to earth, and so Empedocles and Democritus came along with their Atoms; thereby provoking Anaxagoras into bringing in Soul to explain things. Without Prejudice

Thus Empedocles reproached the men of Agrigentum with heaping up pleasures as if they had but one day to live, and building as if they would live for ever. Emile

I should not wish to see Etna merely because Empedocles is supposed to have jumped down the crater, nor the site of Jericho because the walls fell down at the trumpets of the host. At Large

In classical antiquity the Sicilian philosopher Empedocles gave himself out to be not merely a wizard but a god. The Golden Bough

Empedocles declares, that the distance of the moon from the sun is double her remoteness from the earth. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

If he lived when physical speculation was coming into fashion, as in the age of Empedocles, he thought that the Homeric poems must contain a veiled account of physical philosophy. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1

Then is the soul as Empedocles doth liken it, like unto a sphere or XII. Meditations

Water—the divine Nestis of the Agrigentine Empedocles—is so necessary to animated beings that nothing can live far from the rivers and the springs. The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Evening may therefore be called 'the old age of the day,' and old age, 'the evening of life,' or, in the phrase of Empedocles, 'life's setting sun.' The Poetics of Aristotle

Empedocles says that the want of those elements which compose animals gives to them appetite, and pleasures spring from humidity. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

This is the old wisdom taught long ago by Empedocles. Darwin and Modern Science

Summon all philosophers—Protagoras, Heracleitus, Empedocles, and the rest of them, one after another, and with the exception of Parmenides they will agree with you in this. Theaetetus

At the port over there is a statue of Empedocles, before which I bare my head each time that I pass by! The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

The myths that have grown about the name of Empedocles show that he was a remarkable personality. A History of Science — Volume 1

Empedocles and Heraclides, that the senses act by a just accommodation of the pores in every case; everything that is perceived by the sense being congruously adapted to its proper organ. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

It is well known that at a far higher stage of culture a crude form of the evolutionary hypothesis was propounded by the Greek philosopher Empedocles. Darwin and Modern Science

SOCRATES: Do not he and you and Empedocles say that there are certain effluences of existence? Meno

Signor, what our unhappy country needs to-day is a new Empedocles! The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Empedocles appears to have been at once an observer and a dreamer. A History of Science — Volume 1

Empedocles affirms, that heat and cold give the difference in the generation of males and females. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

He agrees with Empedocles and the Atomists in attributing the greater differences of kinds to the figures of the elements and their movements into and out of one another. Timaeus

The notion of a previous state of existence is found in the verses of Empedocles and in the fragments of Heracleitus. Meno

Of all the South Italian physicians of this period, the personality of none stands out in stronger outlines than that of Empedocles of Agrigentum—physician, physiologist, religious teacher, politician and poet. The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913

Empedocles was a poet whose verses stood the test of criticism. A History of Science — Volume 1

Empedocles, that a woman's imagination in conception impresses a shape upon the infant; for women have been enamoured with images and statues, and the children which were born of them gave their similitudes. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

These Plato, like Empedocles, supposed to be four in number—fire, air, earth, and water. Timaeus

Empedocles composes the elements of still minuter bulks, those which are the most minute and may be termed the element of elements. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

All sorts of magical powers were attributed to Empedocles. The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913

Perhaps the most important conception which the works of Empedocles reveal to us is the denial of anthropomorphism as applied to deity. A History of Science — Volume 1

Empedocles, that the embryo is not an animal, yet whilst it remains in the belly it breathes. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles, that the sea is the sweat of the earth heated by the sun. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles says that hearing is formed by the insidency of the air upon the cochlea, which it is said hangs within the ear as a bell, and is beat upon by the air. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles regarded the four elements, fire, air, earth and water, as "the roots of all things," and this became the corner stone in the humoral pathology of Hippocrates. The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913

Considering for a moment the more tangible accomplishments of Empedocles, we find it alleged that one of his "miracles" consisted of the preservation of a dead body without putrefaction for some weeks after death. A History of Science — Volume 1

Empedocles, that the figure of it resembles a quoit. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles, that the places of the elements are not always fixed and determined, but they all succeed one another in their respective stations. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles, that those that are of the right hand face the summer solstice, those of the left the winter solstice. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

You remember how Matthew Arnold describes him in the well-known poem, "Empedocles on Etna"— But his power Swells with the swelling evil of this time, And holds men mute to see where it will rise. The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913

Another tradition of far more credible aspect asserts that Empedocles retreated from Italy, returning to the home of his fathers in Peloponnesus to die there obscurely. A History of Science — Volume 1

Empedocles and the Stoics believe that winter is caused by the thickness of the air prevailing and mounting upwards; and summer by fire, it falling downwards. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles affirms, that the superabundance of sperm and the division of it causes the bringing forth of two or three infants. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles makes the nature of necessity to be that cause which employs principles and elements. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles, that the sun is hindered from a continual direct course by its spherical vehicle and by the two circular tropics. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles assures us that "many heads grow up without necks, and arms were wandering about, necks bereft of shoulders, and eyes roamed about alone with no foreheads." A History of Science — Volume 1

Empedocles says, that the similitude of children to their parents proceeds from the vigorous prevalency of the generating sperm; the dissimilitude from the evaporation of the natural heat it contains. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles, that which is consentaneous to the passages of the eye. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles says that there is nothing of a vacuity in Nature, nor anything superabundant. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles, that the circle which the sun makes in its motion circumscribes the world, and that circle is the utmost bound of the world. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

We may not doubt, then, that Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Empedocles, with whose names fable was so busy throughout antiquity, were men of extraordinary personality. A History of Science — Volume 1

And besides, there are no land animals so fruitful as the sea ones; agreeable to which observation is that verse of Empedocles, Leading the foolish race of fruitful fish. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles, that they are fiery bodies arising from that fire which the aether embraced within itself, and did shatter in pieces when the elements were first separated one from another. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles, that the fixed stars fastened to the crystal, but the planets are loosened. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles supposes that images are mixed with the rays of the eye; these he styles the rays of images. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Italy, off to the west, is the home of Pythagoras and Xenophanes in their later years, and of Parmenides and Empedocles, Zeno, and Archimedes. A History of Science — Volume 1

A similar meaning has the myth about, Aphrodite and Ares, the one having the same force as Empedocles's love, the other his hate. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Empedocles believes, that the joints of men begin to be formed from the thirty-sixth day, and their shape is completed in the nine and fortieth. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

No, by no means, I said; and Empedocles tells us that What's very good claims to be heard twice. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Now what has Empedocles done else, but taught that Nature is nothing else save that which is born, and death no other thing but that which dies? Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

And these were Greeks of the same generation with Empedocles and Anaxagoras and aeschylus; of the same epoch with Pericles and Sophocles and Euripides and Phidias. A History of Science — Volume 1

For Necessity is averse to the Muses; but Persuasion being more agreeable and better acquainted with them, in my opinion, than the grace of Empedocles, Intolerable Necessity abhors. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

But Colotes, as if he were speaking to some ignorant and unlettered king, again attacks Empedocles for expressing the same thought:— I've one thing more to say. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

It is fair to add, however, that the dreamings of Empedocles regarding the origin of living organisms led him to some conceptions that were much less luminous. A History of Science — Volume 1

Yet there are certain passages of Empedocles that are unequivocal and full of interest. A History of Science — Volume 1

Even at a very early day such men as Xenophanes, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Plato attained to a singularly rationalistic conception of the universe. A History of Science — Volume 1

Empedocles, before the four elements, introduceth the most minute bodies which resemble elements; but they did exist before the elements, having similar parts and orbicular. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

These dates make Empedocles strictly contemporary with Anaxagoras, a fact which we shall do well to bear in mind when we come to consider the latter's philosophy in the succeeding chapter. A History of Science — Volume 1

Empedocles, like Pythagoras, was a physician; like him also he was the founder of a cult. A History of Science — Volume 1

What has been said of Thales may be repeated, in the main, regarding Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Empedocles. A History of Science — Volume 1

单词	Empedocles
例句	Empedocles The first recorded experiment on air was performed by a physician' named Empedocles, who flourished around 450 B.C. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, Aristotle believed Empedocles’s theory that everything was made out of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Empedocles argued that it could only be air. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Empedocles performed his experiment with a household implement people had used for centuries, the so-called clepsydra or “water thief,” which was used as a kitchen ladle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Empedocles was, at least in part, a Pythagorean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Empedocles is said to have died in an apotheotic fit by leaping into the hot lava at the summit caldera of the great volcano of Aetna. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Xenophanes wasn’t the only ancient Greek to hold such a view: subsequent thinkers proposed similar theories, including the vegetarian Empedocles and the Stoics. We're all gonna die! How the idea of human extinction has reshaped our world 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z In the 5th century, over 100,000 people lived there and, according to the philosopher Empedocles, they would “party as if they’ll die tomorrow, and build as if they’ll live forever”. Huge Atlas statue to guard Sicily's Temple of Zeus once more 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Aristotle was not the first to conceptualize an elemental system: he borrowed from the fifth-century-bc pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles. More than 2,000 years of elements: a prehistory of the periodic table 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Pythagoras and Empedocles were quoted as the founders of this branch of ethics. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Lucretius speaks of Empedocles in terms scarcely less exaggerated than those which he applied to Epicurus. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z Like the Empedocles of Matthew Arnold, baffled in the ineffable longing to escape themselves, these bearers of the divine light are haled unwillingly Back to this meadow of calamity, This uncongenial place, this human life. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z To his left Pythagoras is writing on his knee, and near him, with ink and pen, is Empedocles. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Traces of an idea of Evolution may be found in various crude forms in nearly all the earlier Greek philosophers, especially in Anaximander, Heraclitus, Democritus, Empedocles, and later in Aristotle. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Hippocrates and Empedocles attributed digestion to the putrefaction of food. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Many legends are told of his magic arts, one of which, it will be remembered, Matthew Arnold makes an occasion of some fine reflections in his poem Empedocles in Etna. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z According to Empedocles, the four primal elements, earth, air, fire and water, are worked upon by the forces of love and discord. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Democritus who puts the world on chance, Diogenes, Anaxagoras, and Thales, Zeno, Empedocles, and Heraclitus, . The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z But Stevenson, braver to confront life than Empedocles, would not have leapt into the crater! Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z Varro also is mentioned by ancient writers, in connexion with Empedocles and Lucretius, as the author of a metrical work 'De Rerum Natura4.' The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z He also accepted the theory broached by Empedocles as to the survival of fit and capable forms after life had arrived at these through the processes of spontaneous generation and the production of monstrosities. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z Empedocles gave his whole body at Catana to the fires of Etna: what mental resolution! Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z Empedocles is only the clearest voice among them—they all say the same thing, if a man will but open his ears. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z This arbitrary assumption of four elements, first made by Empedocles, persisted in the popular imagination throughout the Middle Ages and is, like other cosmological ideas of antiquity, sometimes reflected in the poetry of the time. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z But the great intellectual life of such men as Democritus, Empedocles, or Anaxagoras, escapes our notice in the more familiar studies of classical literature. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z This is a feature of the philosophy of Empedocles, who flourished in the fifth century B. C. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z "It was Empedocles who taught us that earth, air, fire, and water must form the limits of our knowledge; but who believes him now?" The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z Similar boasts occur in the poems of Empedocles and of Taliesin. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z But I think a more pertinent question would have been: How can either Empedocles or, as is usually alleged, Landor have anything to do with the passage referred to? The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Didactic poetry obtained in Lucretius and Virgil ampler volume and profounder meaning than in their Greek models, Empedocles and Hesiod. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The advance of Persia westward had led to migrations of Greeks to the south of Italy and Sicily, and it was at Agrigentum, in that island, that Empedocles was born about 490. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z Empedocles tries to explain the genesis of organic beings, and, according to Lange, anticipates the idea of Darwin that adaptations abound, because it is their nature to perpetuate themselves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Most people are extremely like one's self, and choosing among relics would be supposed to first take one of the sandals of Empedocles, fabled to have been cast forth by Aetna. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z Thus Xenophanes gave to the earth infinitely extended roots, against which Empedocles uses such arguments as we should use now. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z The work of Empedocles and the kindred works of Xenophanes and Parmenides are inspired not by the passion of art but by the enthusiasm of discovery. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Anaxagoras, who was a contemporary of Empedocles, interests us because he was the first philosopher to repair to Athens, and the first sufferer for truth’s sake of whom we have record in Greek annals. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z Empedocles, with Madness sought the Flame, And thought by that; to gain immortal Fame. The Art of Architecture A Poem In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry 2011-06-17T02:00:16.870Z Empedocles on Etna, also accompanied by other poems, followed in 1852, and another volume of poems the year after. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Our last view of Sicily gives us a fine glimpse of Etna, with the crater into which Empedocles threw himself, 400 b.c. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z He thus seems to stand midway between the spiritual aspirations of Empedocles and the negation of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Even at a recent period similar dispositions are evident in Plato, Socrates, Empedocles, and many others, above all, the poets. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Empedocles held earth, water, fire, air, as the four fundamental and indestructible elements from whose union and separation everything that exists is formed. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z His Merope, a play on the Greek model, is frigid; and fine as is Empedocles on Etna, its merits are in the thought and the beautiful verse rather than the dramatic structure. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z In versifying the philosophical system of Epicurus, Lucretius appears to have taken Empedocles as his model. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z But although Aristotle acknowledges the poetical genius of Empedocles by applying to him the epithet Ὁμηρικός, he denies to his composition the title of a poem. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z I allow, that Ocellus Lucanus and Empedocles have arranged everything by moving antagonist forces, but what shall I gather from it? A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z And at once these powers send him a happy inspiration, perhaps a happy reminiscence of Empedocles. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z With regard to action, Arnold himself withdrew Empedocles on Etna shortly after its publication, on the ground that it was a poem in which all was to be endured and nothing to be done. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z These writers, Empedocles and Ennius, were probably Lucretius’ chief guides; and though the most original of the Latin poets, many of his finest passages may be traced to the Greeks. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The conception of Nature was no longer mystical or purely imaginative as it had been in the age of Empedocles. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Hark to the words he puts into the mouth of Empedocles: And yet what days were those, Parmenides! The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z In the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. there was a distinct school of philosophical epic, and we distinguish the names of Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles as the leaders of it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Incidentally he found little poetry in Empedocles, who in spite of his metre was primarily a physicist. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z If Lucretius has in any degree benefited by the works of Empedocles, he has in return been most lavish and eloquent in his commendations. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z There are, according to Empedocles, four ultimate elements, four primal divinities, of which are made all structures in the world—fire, air, water, earth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Matthew Arnold, with all his scholarship and culture, never succeeded in doing this, even in such fine work as A Strayed Reveler or Empedocles on Etna. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z Empedocles, lamenting his connection with this corporeal world, pathetically exclaimed:— For this I weep, for this indulge my woe, That e'er my soul such novel realms should know. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites 2011-01-28T03:00:23.447Z Plato had the good sense to write in prose instead of following the ridiculous method of versifying of the early Greek philosophers, like Parmenides and Empedocles. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Lucretius expresses a similar enthusiasm for Homer, Ennius, Empedocles, and Epicurus; and by Virgil the same feeling is, though not directly expressed, yet profoundly felt towards Homer and Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil It is in the aggregation and segregation of elements thus arising that Empedocles, like the atomists, finds the real process which corresponds to what is popularly termed growth, increase or decrease. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Recommends translations of classic and modern foreign authors, 85.Epictetus, the Greek stoic, 37.Empedocles on Etna, one of Matthew Arnold's finest poems, 32.Euripides, Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z Surely it is not in Empedocles on Etna, and surely it is not in Merope. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" We do not despise the philosophy of Socrates and Plato, because it does not come to us clothed in verse, like the speculations of Thales, Parmenides, and Empedocles. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius He would thus seem to have looked on Lucretius with something of that veneration with which Lucretius regards Epicurus, Empedocles, and Ennius, and with which Dante long after regarded Virgil himself. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Hence the precepts of morality are with Empedocles largely dietetic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z With them came philosophical poems, such as those of Xenophanes and Empedocles; the epical history of Herodotus; the dramatic philosophy of Plato. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" In 1852 he published another volume under the same initial, Empedocles on Etna, and other Poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" The town is also famous as the birthplace of the philosopher Empedocles. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide But the detailed development which Empedocles gave to this principle was by no means satisfactory. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy It is not easy to harmonize these quasi-scientific theories with the theory of transmigration of souls which Empedocles seems to expound. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z This man, Joukahainen, provoked him to a trial of song, boasting, like Empedocles, or like one of the old Celtic bards, that he had been all things. Custom and Myth New Edition Empedocles is as undramatic a poem perhaps as was ever written in dramatic form, but studded with lyrical beauties of a very high order. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" The great poem of Parmenides On Nature and those of Empedocles exist only in fragments, but enough remains to show that these poets carried on the didactic method in mythology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" For Empedocles there are only four ultimate kinds of matter, qualitatively distinguished. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Looking at the opposition between these and the ordinary opinions, we are not surprised that Empedocles notes the limitation and narrowness of human perceptions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Sages, neighbors of the gods, of whom Empedocles was the last representative, had supposed, that in the beginning of things, those that loved were one. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern I have always admired Empedocles, who cast himself into Etna. Ancestors A Novel Shut in forever from the sunshine, I dip my brush in the shadows that surround me, for, like Empedocles,— ... Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Empedocles had assumed four different kinds of matter. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Empedocles therefore conceived a double or binary elementary principle; and Aristotle developed this idea a stage further, stating two sets of binary antagonistic principles, namely “dry-wet” and “hot-cold.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The list of Eleatic philosophers is doubtfully closed by the name of Empedocles of Agrigentum, who in legend almost rivals Pythagoras. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Empedocles wrote his physics in verse, and Oppian his history of animals. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century We were saying to our friend Dr. Empedocles that we kept our enthusiasms green by never taking anything very seriously. The So-called Human Race Empedocles had believed in four ultimate and underived kinds of matter. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy In the early age of Greece he might have been Empedocles or Heraclitus; he could never have been Spinoza or Kant. A Modern Symposium One hundred and fifty years later Empedocles announced a new thought. The Meaning of Evolution It has forbidden him, he tells us, to reprint Empedocles—a poem undoubtedly containing defects and even excesses, but containing also these lines: And yet what days were those, Parmenides! English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Empedocles appears to you to be mad; but to me he seems to utter words very worthy of the subjects of which he speaks. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero Empedocles had taken as his moving forces, Love and Hate, mythical and fanciful on the one hand, and yet purely physical on the other. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The theories of Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, etc. are refuted; i. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors She is, if not "the whole" good—which, as Empedocles said long ago, few can boast to find,—good, and nothing but good, except pretty, and other things which are parts or forms of goodness. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century To this class of situations, poetically faulty as it appears to me, that of Empedocles, as I have endeavoured to represent him, belongs; and I have therefore excluded the Poem from the present collection. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Leucippus thought that there was a plenum, and a vacuum; Democritus resembled him in this idea, but was more copious on other matters: Empedocles adopts the theory of the four ordinary and commonly known elements. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero It is true that his immediate successors, Empedocles and Democritus, seized upon this, and built their philosophies upon it. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Alfarabi and Avicenna are also important, but other writings, such as those of Empedocles, Pythagoras, Hermes, Porphyry, represent a pre-Aristotelian philosophy which is obsolete, and are a waste of time. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Empedocles once described his dream of retribution for the last unutterable offence. Apologia Diffidentis Empedocles He ever loved the Theban story well! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Now that Thales, Pythagoras, Xenophanes, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were all believers in the existence of one supreme, uncreated, eternal God, has been, we think, clearly shown by Cudworth. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles This thought now forms the first principle of Empedocles, and of his successors, Anaxagoras, and the Atomists. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The ideas projected thus early on the modern world were immature and abortive, like those headless trunks and zoöphytic members of half-moulded humanity which, in the vision of Empedocles, preceded the birth of full-formed man. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 Empedocles indeed, it is said, gave himself out to be a deity exiled from heaven, and was apparently worshipped as such. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' Thou must be viewless to Empedocles; Save mine, he must not meet a human eye. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold And so this new Empedocles Upon the blazing pile one sees, Self-doom'd by purest folly To fate so melancholy. A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine And we do hear vaguely of physical particles in the doctrine of Empedocles, but no definition is given of their nature, and no clear conception is formed of their character. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Such a principle had been suggested as early as the time of Empedocles, but it remained for Darwin to establish it with an unanswerable array of observation and experimentation. The Approach to Philosophy Empedocles says of the elements: They remain ever the same, but yet by combining their forces Become transformed into men and the numberless beings besides. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity A long pause, during which Empedocles remains motionless, plunged in thought. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold To wander from our destined tracks— There cannot be a vainer wish; But this Empedocles of wax, That melted in chafing-dish Was truly not a greater fool Than he of whom we read at school. A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine Lastly, though there are in Empedocles traces of the doctrine that the qualities of things depend on the position and arrangement of their particles, this idea is not consistently developed. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Although the first Greek philosophers, such men as Thales, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Empedocles, were clearly aware of their distinction and high calling, it by no means follows that they were good judges of themselves. The Approach to Philosophy Empedocles therefore must come to the conclusion that the sage finds again the Divine Primordial Unity, hidden in the world by a spell, and entangled in the meshes of love and hatred. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity Empedocles would say so, did he deign; But he still lets the people, whom he scorns, Gape and cry wizard at him, if they list. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold And Empedocles the naturalist is supposed to have driven away the pestilence from that district, by having closed up a mountain gorge that was prejudicial to health by admitting the south wind to the plains. Plutarch's Morals All becoming is explained by Empedocles as the result of motion of material particles. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Empedocles, the Strayed Reveller, even the Forsaken Merman, all these are expressions of purely personal feeling—are so many p. 86metamorphoses of Arnold. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation But if man finds the divine, he must himself be divine, for Empedocles takes the point of view that a being is only cognised by its equal. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity Empedocles Hark! what sound was that Rose from below? Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold And so Empedocles calls Aphrodite Life-giving,89 and Sophocles calls her Fruitful, both very appropriate epithets. Plutarch's Morals The Atomists, therefore, maintain the essential position of Empedocles, after eliminating the inconsistencies which we have just noted. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy These views fit in with the doctrines of Empedocles, so that we may perhaps even venture to regard this work as a surviving document of the Sicilian school. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield What then are the things in the world from Empedocles' point of view? Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity Empedocles And lie thou there, My laurel bough! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Empedocles, one of the early disciples of Pythagoras, said that he inhabited a female body in his preceding existence. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Anaxagoras's theory of perception is the opposite of the theories of Empedocles and the Atomists. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy And Empedocles proceeds to the great evolutionary deduction, the clear prevision of Darwin’s philosophy, that fit and unfit arise alike, but that what is fit to survive does survive and what is unfit perishes. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Empedocles expresses his fundamental conviction in Greek form by means of images which border on myth. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity But no, this heart will glow no more; thou art A living man no more, Empedocles! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold EMPEDOCLES.—Empedocles was a native of Agrigentum, a Greek colony in Sicily. A Short History of Greek Philosophy This characteristically Indian doctrine was held by the Pythagoreans, from whom it passed to Empedocles and Plato. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Empedocles spoke of the ‘four roots’ of things, and by this he meant to imply that these four forms of matter were equally original and altogether disparate. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield In Empedocles' theory of evolution, the vegetable world preceded the animal. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology Empedocles All is still save for the far, faint step of Akron on the stair, and the still fainter murmur from the streets. The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays Empedocles was a man of high family, and he exercised the influence which his position and his abilities secured him in promoting and maintaining the liberty of his fellow-countrymen. A Short History of Greek Philosophy Empedocles certainly attained to the idea of an efficient cause, for he named as moving forces, harmony and discord, love and hate. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Man, as Empedocles and others had taught, was ‘an exile and vagabond from God’; his body was his tomb; he is clothed in ‘an alien garment of flesh’. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Empedocles stayed his feet among the groves of Etna to hear it. The Call of the Blood Empedocles Be tranquil, child, I am no god, only a physician come to heal you. The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays "Eager to be deemed a god, Empedocles coldly threw himself in burning Etna." A Short History of Greek Philosophy Later philosophers also gave different accounts of it, Heracleitus thinking it was fire, Empedocles the four elements, Anaxagoras an indefinite number of kinds of matter. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The views of Empedocles, and especially his doctrine that regarded the heart as the main site of the pneuma, though rejected by the Coan school as a whole, were not without influence on Ionia. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield To his left, Pythagoras is writing on his knee, and near him, with ink and pen, is Empedocles. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Empedocles Nay, 'tis not so strange as that, and yet 'tis stranger. The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays Foremost among them is Empedocles of Agrigentum, child of the island with the triple capes, a land wondrous deemed in many wise, and worthy to be viewed of all men. A Short History of Greek Philosophy Such a poem as that of Empedocles, who unfolded his philosophical system in metre, is not, in fact, poetry at all. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Empedocles alone, who was a biologist like himself, and the founder of a medical school, finds favour in his eyes. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Since the time of the Greek philosopher Empedocles, fire, earth, air, and water have been popularly called the four elements; when used alone, however, ‘the element’ commonly means ‘the air.’ Milton's Comus Empedocles The arm drawn downward by the heavy golden bracelet is cold, yet soft and yielding like a sleep. The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays The correction of the one sense by the others, and of all by reason, this Empedocles deemed the surest road to knowledge. A Short History of Greek Philosophy The foundation of the philosophy of Anaxagoras is the same as that of Empedocles and the Atomists. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Anaxagoras admitted the existence of ultimate elementary particles, as Empedocles did, from the combinations whereof all material phenomena resulted. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Not a few held, with Empedocles, that human life is a penal state, the doom of such immortal souls as for guilt have been disgraced and expelled from heaven. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Empedocles Did you not see new things or new lands or old dead faces, for you have been gone a month? The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays Somewhat prosaically summing up the teaching of Empedocles, Aristotle says that he thus posited six first principles in nature—four material, two motive or efficient. A Short History of Greek Philosophy The philosophy of Empedocles is eclectic in character. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Empedocles even held that souls went into plants. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry There is a Greek story that Empedocles, "after a sacred festival, was drawn up to heaven in a splendor of celestial effulgence." The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Empedocles The power of a thought, that is the real wonder! The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays These inconsistencies of doctrine, which Aristotle notes as faults in Empedocles, are perhaps rather proofs of the philosophic value of his conceptions. A Short History of Greek Philosophy Empedocles here too follows Parmenides, and interprets his doctrine in his own way. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy This is the reputed site of the observatory of Empedocles, the poet and philosopher, who is fabled to have thrown himself into the crater of Ætna to immortalize his name. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two The pre existence of the soul, whether taught by Pythagoras, sung by Empedocles, dreamed by Fludd, or contended for by Beecher, is the principal foundation of the belief in the metempsychosis. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Empedocles How say you, thirty days! and there is no feature of corruption? The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays So, to Empedocles there are four elements, yet in the eternal perfection, the silent reign of Love, there are none of them. A Short History of Greek Philosophy This leads Empedocles at once to a doctrine of elements. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The reported luxury of the Sikeliot cities in this age is, in the double-edged saying of Empedocles, connected with one of their noblest tastes. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two Thus the philosophical poems of Xenophanes, Parmenides, and 172 Empedocles belonged essentially to a transitional stage of human culture. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Empedocles And have you made the tests of death? The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays The systems of such men may die, but such deaths mean, as Empedocles said of the ordinary deaths of things, only an infinity of new births. A Short History of Greek Philosophy The philosophy of Empedocles is therefore to be considered as merely transitional in character. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Eight or nine years ago he had a sudden passion for Empedocles, whose fragments he had found collected and translated by Mr. Leonard, an American. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters It belongs really to the succession of Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Empedocles. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series It is said also that the philosopher Empedocles sought fame and death by casting himself into the fiery crater. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography In Thales, Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Empedocles we have been touching hands with an apostolic succession of great men and great thinkers and great poets—men of noble life and lofty thoughts, true prophets and revealers. A Short History of Greek Philosophy Thus Thales asserted that the ultimate reality is water, Anaximander indefinite matter, Anaximenes air, the Pythagoreans number, the Eleatics Being, Heracleitus fire, Empedocles the four elements, Democritus atoms, and so on. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy He makes Empedocles, the poet-philosopher, climb the summit of the mountain, gaze for the last time on the realm of nature spread around, and apostrophise the stars above and the volcanic fires beneath his feet. Nature Mysticism Yet he chose the vehicle of hexameter verse, and trammelled his genius with limitations which Empedocles, four hundred years before, must have found almost intolerable. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Empedocles on AEtna might have been Empedocles in his room at Catana, and a dagger or a cup of hemlock would have answered all purposes equally well with a plunge in the burning crater. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc It would stir the political bile or the physical spleen of a drab or a Tory To hear critics disputing my claim to Empedocles, Maud, and the Laboratory. The Heptalogia And this is the first basic principle of Empedocles. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The old speculations of Empedocles that love and hate are the motive forces in all things gleams out in a new light. Nature Mysticism Lastly, Empedocles, who held the existence of our four material elements and two principles of movement, said that the soul was composed of these. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Powerful as is much of the language which he places in the mouth of Empedocles, he has failed to represent him as in a condition in which suicide is the natural result. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc Empedocles, who distinguished himself in philosophy, was a contemporary of David, while Pythagoras lived in the days of Solomon, son of David, and acquired Wisdom from the treasury of prophethood. Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas This is the second basic principle of Empedocles. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy He had done the same with Empedocles on Etna, and other Poems in 1852. Matthew Arnold Firstly, because, both in Phys. viii and in De Coelo i, text 101, he premises some opinions, as those of Anaxagoras, Empedocles and Plato, and brings forward reasons to refute them. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition It is not therefore the actual fate of Empedocles which fails to interest us, but we are unable to feel that Mr. Arnold's account of him is the true account. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc Thus Empedocles, Lucretius, and the author of “Vestiges of Creation,” all found out Darwinism before Mr. Darwin. Lost Leaders The word "elements," indeed, is of later invention, and Empedocles speaks of the elements as "the roots of all." A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Empedocles himself is sometimes dreadfully tedious; but the part of Callicles throughout is lavishly poetical. Matthew Arnold He had done his best; and, like another Empedocles, threw himself into AEtna, to ensure immortality. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution Empedocles, as we all know, was a Sicilian philosopher, who, out of discontent with life, or from other cause, flung himself into the crater of Mount AEtna. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc The awful column began to change its effect from terror to fascination, and I knew how Empedocles felt when he flung himself into the burning Aetna. Among the Forces Empedocles was therefore the originator of the familiar classification of the four elements. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy But Empedocles itself was only represented by some scraps, mainly grouped as The Harp-Player on Etna. Matthew Arnold The ideas projected thus early on the modern world were immature and abortive, like those headless trunks and zoophitic members of half-molded humanity which, in the vision of Empedocles, preceded the birth of full-formed man. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots No philosopher since Heraclitus and Empedocles had asserted so strongly that "Strife is the father of all things." Christian Mysticism From the Italian school of philosophy, the expression passed, in this signification, into the language of those early poets p 71 of nature, Parmenides and Empedocles, and from thence into the works of prose writers. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Now we saw that the philosophy of Empedocles was based upon an attempt to reconcile the doctrine of Parmenides with the doctrine of Heracleitus. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy In the definitive edition indeed, she is not with these but with Empedocles on Etna, a rather unlucky contrast. Matthew Arnold Empedocles said that "the mind could only conceive of fire by being fire." The Function of the Poet and Other Essays This man, Joukahainen, provoked him to a trial of song, boasting, like Empedocles, or like one of the old Celtic bards, that he had been all things. Custom and Myth Empedocles, while he was ambitious of being esteemed an immortal god, in cold blood leaped into burning Aetna. The Works of Horace Secondly, the moving forces of Empedocles, Love and Hate, are fanciful and mythological. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Of Empedocles it is not necessary to speak again: Thyrsis could not but charm. Matthew Arnold The former had music and architecture and other sciences among his accomplishments; the latter spread out in literature, as "Sohrab and Rustum," "Empedocles on Etna," "Tristram and Iseult," as well as "Balder Dead" attest. The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature It is found underlying the magnificent civilization of ancient Egypt, and from thence it traveled to the Western world being held as the highest truth by such teachers as Pythagoras, Empedocles, Plato, Virgil and Ovid. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga The next year the narrative poem, The Sick King in Bokhara, came out, and was followed in turn by a third volume in 1853, under the title of Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems Hence it was impossible that the philosophy of mechanism and materialism should stand still in the position in which Empedocles left it. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy It contained, like its predecessor, such of his earlier work as he chose to republish and had not yet republished, chiefly from the Empedocles volume. Matthew Arnold Taking the four elements of Empedocles, he says that three of them are passive, or suffering, elements while only fire is active, and that not wholly. The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala Thus it is that Empedocles taught: By earth earth we perceive; by water, water; by aether, aether; fire, by destructive fire; by friendship, friendship; and strife by bitter strife. Simon Magus Empedocles on Etna, a half-autobiographical drama, is in some respects a striking poem. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems This is the logical development of the tentative mechanism of Empedocles. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The brave Empedocles, defying fools, Pronounced the word that mortals hate to hear— "I am divine, I am not mortal made; I am superior to my human weeds." Poems Household Edition To this class of situations, poetically faulty as it appears to me, that of Empedocles, as I have endeavored to represent him, belongs; and I have therefore excluded the poem from the present collection. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold After an hour's repose, proceeded downwards, visited the Philosopher's Tower, as it is called, which tradition says was constructed by Empedocles while he was studying the various phenomena of Etna. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 568, September 29, 1832 After Empedocles, who divined that Eros evolved the worlds from Chaos, metaphysics have not advanced one step. Without Dogma Though these terms may have an idealistic sound, Empedocles conceives them as entirely physical and material forces. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Do not throw yourself, O traveller, into Etna, like Empedocles, but be taken by the camera standing on the edge of the crater! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 He is the subject of Arnold's early poetical drama, Empedocles on Etna, which he later suppressed for reasons which he states in the Preface to the Poems of 1853. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold Still, it must be remembered that, whether consistently or not, Empedocles produced an elaborate work on the Nature of Things, Not Properly a Pantheist. to which Lucretius makes eloquent and earnest acknowledgments. Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern I can understand now how centuries after Empedocles there came Schopenhauer and Hartmann. Without Dogma The date of his birth, the date of his death, and his place of residence, are alike unknown, but it is believed that he was a contemporary of Empedocles and Anaxagoras. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Hippocrates, his precursors, Empedocles and Democritus, and Pliny, Aristotle, and Galen, have all described monsters, although in extravagant and ridiculous language. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Anaximander, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and, greatest of all, Aristotle, as we have seen, developed them, making their way at times by guesses toward truths since established by observation. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom ACRON, a Greek physician, born at Agrigentum in Sicily, was contemporary with Empedocles, and must therefore have lived in the 5th century before Christ. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Plutarch quotes Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Aristotle, and Plato in support of his hypothesis of the Two Principles, and refers to Plato's Third Principle. Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations Now up to the present point the philosophy of Anaxagoras does not rise above the previous philosophies of Empedocles and the Atomists. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Empedocles of Agrigentum, a sort of magician and high-priest, almost a deity, whose life and death are but little known, appears to have possessed an encyclopaedic brain. Initiation into Philosophy On the same shelf were Thomas the Rhymer's green velvet shoes, and the brazen shoe of Empedocles which was thrown out of Mount AEtna. A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") Empedocles ascribed all things to fire, air, earth, and water, which are wrought into different bodies by "love" and "hate;" or, as we should say, attraction and repulsion. Outline of Universal History The only Greek poets mentioned by him are Homer and Empedocles. Latin Literature His immediate successors, Empedocles and Democritus, seized upon the materialistic aspect of his thought, and developed it. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Pythagoras, like Empedocles, was a sort of magician or god. Initiation into Philosophy Empedocles, among others, in direct opposition to these, affirms, that "like aims at like." Ethics Empedocles attributed its state of rest to centrifugal force by the rapid circular movement of the heavens, as water is stationary in a pail when whirled round by a string. History of Astronomy Whether it be so, ask Pythagoras, Socrates, Empedocles, and our master Ortuinus. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 O companion! if I could mount up as well as I can get down, I had been long ere this above the sphere of the moon with Empedocles. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 His poem on "The Nature of Things" is in imitation of that of Empedocles. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Empedocles delivered the people of Selinus from a pestilence by draining a marsh, and was hailed as a Demigod. The Pleasures of Life Hesiod, Parmenides, and Empedocles were, indeed, cited as examples. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The idea of Reincarnation was spread widely in Greece and Italy by Pythagoras, Empedocles, Plato, Virgil and Ovid. Five Lectures on Reincarnation Empedocles has also been mentioned as a disciple of Pythagoras. Lives of the Necromancers Other philosophers belonging to Iona or Elea may be referred to these schools, as Heraclitus, Empedocles, Democritus, and Anaxagoras, whose doctrines, however, vary from those of the representatives of the philosophical systems above named. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Sometimes, indeed, it happens that a philosopher's fame outlives even his works themselves; as has happened with Thales, Empedocles, Heraclitus, Democritus, Parmenides, Epicurus and many others. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature Some of these are precisely the powers ascribed to Medea, Empedocles, and Simon Magus, in passages already cited. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 Three years later he published Empedocles on Etna and other Poems; but only a few copies of these volumes were sold, and presently both were withdrawn from circulation. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World Empedocles, born 444 B.C., like others of the Eleatics, complained of the imperfection of the senses, and looked for truth only in reason. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations As said the first Greek philosopher, Empedocles, who 560 B.C. adumbrated the "survival of the fittest" theory of Darwin, they are the result of ceaseless trials of nature. American Big Game in Its Haunts Empedocles came likewise, who looked sodden and roasted all over. Trips to the Moon Thus he refuses to classify as poetry the scientific writings which Empedocles had composed in meter as well as the histories of Herodotus, even if he had written them in verse. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism Hence, referring to bygone times, we are told by Empedocles that "there are two destinies for the souls of highest virtue —to pass either into trees or into the bodies of lions." The Folk-lore of Plants But it can hardly be doubted, that magic in its grossest and most ridiculous sense was practised in Egypt, at least among some of the vulgar, long before Pythagoras or Empedocles travelled into that country. Thaumaturgia At this moment of depression—I was very near tears—who should come up behind me but Empedocles the physicist? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 “You are very kind,” said I, “most noble Empedocles, and when I fly back to Greece, I shall not forget to pay my devotions to you in the tunnel of my chimney every new moon.” Trips to the Moon Empedocles also came, scorched all over and baked right through; but not all his entreaties could gain him admittance. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 Empedocles found no significance in life whatever except as an unsteady play of love and hate, of attraction and repulsion, of assimilation and the assertion of difference. A Modern Utopia Nor would I rank with Sam that man who went Down into Aetna's womb—Empedocles, I think he called himself. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Empedocles began gradually to disappear, and at last vanished in smoke. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 This conversation ended, Empedocles vanished into smoke, and I saw no more of him. Trips to the Moon It was now about time to return to earth, and so Empedocles and Democritus came along with their Atoms; thereby provoking Anaxagoras into bringing in Soul to explain things. Without Prejudice Thus Empedocles reproached the men of Agrigentum with heaping up pleasures as if they had but one day to live, and building as if they would live for ever. Emile I should not wish to see Etna merely because Empedocles is supposed to have jumped down the crater, nor the site of Jericho because the walls fell down at the trumpets of the host. At Large In classical antiquity the Sicilian philosopher Empedocles gave himself out to be not merely a wizard but a god. The Golden Bough Empedocles declares, that the distance of the moon from the sun is double her remoteness from the earth. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies If he lived when physical speculation was coming into fashion, as in the age of Empedocles, he thought that the Homeric poems must contain a veiled account of physical philosophy. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 Then is the soul as Empedocles doth liken it, like unto a sphere or XII. Meditations Water—the divine Nestis of the Agrigentine Empedocles—is so necessary to animated beings that nothing can live far from the rivers and the springs. The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard Evening may therefore be called 'the old age of the day,' and old age, 'the evening of life,' or, in the phrase of Empedocles, 'life's setting sun.' The Poetics of Aristotle Empedocles says that the want of those elements which compose animals gives to them appetite, and pleasures spring from humidity. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies This is the old wisdom taught long ago by Empedocles. Darwin and Modern Science Summon all philosophers—Protagoras, Heracleitus, Empedocles, and the rest of them, one after another, and with the exception of Parmenides they will agree with you in this. Theaetetus At the port over there is a statue of Empedocles, before which I bare my head each time that I pass by! The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard The myths that have grown about the name of Empedocles show that he was a remarkable personality. A History of Science — Volume 1 Empedocles and Heraclides, that the senses act by a just accommodation of the pores in every case; everything that is perceived by the sense being congruously adapted to its proper organ. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies It is well known that at a far higher stage of culture a crude form of the evolutionary hypothesis was propounded by the Greek philosopher Empedocles. Darwin and Modern Science SOCRATES: Do not he and you and Empedocles say that there are certain effluences of existence? Meno Signor, what our unhappy country needs to-day is a new Empedocles! The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard Empedocles appears to have been at once an observer and a dreamer. A History of Science — Volume 1 Empedocles affirms, that heat and cold give the difference in the generation of males and females. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies He agrees with Empedocles and the Atomists in attributing the greater differences of kinds to the figures of the elements and their movements into and out of one another. Timaeus The notion of a previous state of existence is found in the verses of Empedocles and in the fragments of Heracleitus. Meno Of all the South Italian physicians of this period, the personality of none stands out in stronger outlines than that of Empedocles of Agrigentum—physician, physiologist, religious teacher, politician and poet. The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 Empedocles was a poet whose verses stood the test of criticism. A History of Science — Volume 1 Empedocles, that a woman's imagination in conception impresses a shape upon the infant; for women have been enamoured with images and statues, and the children which were born of them gave their similitudes. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies These Plato, like Empedocles, supposed to be four in number—fire, air, earth, and water. Timaeus Empedocles composes the elements of still minuter bulks, those which are the most minute and may be termed the element of elements. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies All sorts of magical powers were attributed to Empedocles. The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 Perhaps the most important conception which the works of Empedocles reveal to us is the denial of anthropomorphism as applied to deity. A History of Science — Volume 1 Empedocles, that the embryo is not an animal, yet whilst it remains in the belly it breathes. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles, that the sea is the sweat of the earth heated by the sun. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles says that hearing is formed by the insidency of the air upon the cochlea, which it is said hangs within the ear as a bell, and is beat upon by the air. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles regarded the four elements, fire, air, earth and water, as "the roots of all things," and this became the corner stone in the humoral pathology of Hippocrates. The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 Considering for a moment the more tangible accomplishments of Empedocles, we find it alleged that one of his "miracles" consisted of the preservation of a dead body without putrefaction for some weeks after death. A History of Science — Volume 1 Empedocles, that the figure of it resembles a quoit. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles, that the places of the elements are not always fixed and determined, but they all succeed one another in their respective stations. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles, that those that are of the right hand face the summer solstice, those of the left the winter solstice. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies You remember how Matthew Arnold describes him in the well-known poem, "Empedocles on Etna"— But his power Swells with the swelling evil of this time, And holds men mute to see where it will rise. The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 Another tradition of far more credible aspect asserts that Empedocles retreated from Italy, returning to the home of his fathers in Peloponnesus to die there obscurely. A History of Science — Volume 1 Empedocles and the Stoics believe that winter is caused by the thickness of the air prevailing and mounting upwards; and summer by fire, it falling downwards. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles affirms, that the superabundance of sperm and the division of it causes the bringing forth of two or three infants. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles makes the nature of necessity to be that cause which employs principles and elements. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles, that the sun is hindered from a continual direct course by its spherical vehicle and by the two circular tropics. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles assures us that "many heads grow up without necks, and arms were wandering about, necks bereft of shoulders, and eyes roamed about alone with no foreheads." A History of Science — Volume 1 Empedocles says, that the similitude of children to their parents proceeds from the vigorous prevalency of the generating sperm; the dissimilitude from the evaporation of the natural heat it contains. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles, that which is consentaneous to the passages of the eye. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles says that there is nothing of a vacuity in Nature, nor anything superabundant. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles, that the circle which the sun makes in its motion circumscribes the world, and that circle is the utmost bound of the world. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies We may not doubt, then, that Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Empedocles, with whose names fable was so busy throughout antiquity, were men of extraordinary personality. A History of Science — Volume 1 And besides, there are no land animals so fruitful as the sea ones; agreeable to which observation is that verse of Empedocles, Leading the foolish race of fruitful fish. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles, that they are fiery bodies arising from that fire which the aether embraced within itself, and did shatter in pieces when the elements were first separated one from another. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles, that the fixed stars fastened to the crystal, but the planets are loosened. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles supposes that images are mixed with the rays of the eye; these he styles the rays of images. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Italy, off to the west, is the home of Pythagoras and Xenophanes in their later years, and of Parmenides and Empedocles, Zeno, and Archimedes. A History of Science — Volume 1 A similar meaning has the myth about, Aphrodite and Ares, the one having the same force as Empedocles's love, the other his hate. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Empedocles believes, that the joints of men begin to be formed from the thirty-sixth day, and their shape is completed in the nine and fortieth. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies No, by no means, I said; and Empedocles tells us that What's very good claims to be heard twice. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Now what has Empedocles done else, but taught that Nature is nothing else save that which is born, and death no other thing but that which dies? Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies And these were Greeks of the same generation with Empedocles and Anaxagoras and aeschylus; of the same epoch with Pericles and Sophocles and Euripides and Phidias. A History of Science — Volume 1 For Necessity is averse to the Muses; but Persuasion being more agreeable and better acquainted with them, in my opinion, than the grace of Empedocles, Intolerable Necessity abhors. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies But Colotes, as if he were speaking to some ignorant and unlettered king, again attacks Empedocles for expressing the same thought:— I've one thing more to say. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies It is fair to add, however, that the dreamings of Empedocles regarding the origin of living organisms led him to some conceptions that were much less luminous. A History of Science — Volume 1 Yet there are certain passages of Empedocles that are unequivocal and full of interest. A History of Science — Volume 1 Even at a very early day such men as Xenophanes, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Plato attained to a singularly rationalistic conception of the universe. A History of Science — Volume 1 Empedocles, before the four elements, introduceth the most minute bodies which resemble elements; but they did exist before the elements, having similar parts and orbicular. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies These dates make Empedocles strictly contemporary with Anaxagoras, a fact which we shall do well to bear in mind when we come to consider the latter's philosophy in the succeeding chapter. A History of Science — Volume 1 Empedocles, like Pythagoras, was a physician; like him also he was the founder of a cult. A History of Science — Volume 1 What has been said of Thales may be repeated, in the main, regarding Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Empedocles. A History of Science — Volume 1
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