...science of man." " Before Socrates, the physics were as crnde as the metaphysics. Both alike were vain guess-work founded on hasty resemblances more rudely...the conditions of all trustworthy knowledge." The labors of Aristotle, that have stood the test of centuries, the geometry of Euclid, the modern labors...

...all true science. Socrates, we are told,2 withdrew himself from the misty speculations of his time, that he might first understand himself, as nearer and more intelligible to himself than Nature. Out of this method of study grew the accurate philosophy of that ago — the cosmogony of Plato, the...

...But the inductive method can in no way be thus justified, except as the intellect falls back xipon its own underlying faiths concerning God and nature....himself, he also learned the secret of knowing other tilings. If we may trust the brief expositions of Xenophon and the embellished dialogues of Plato,...