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Ch. 1: Introduction

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INTRODUCTION.                               27
newly generated air had evaporated : and the earth being compressed by the air is indissoluble solidified by the water into stone : that sort being the more beautiful which is trans­parent and composed of equal and homogeneous particles ; the coarser sort being that which is formed in the con­trary manner." Besides this attempt to solve the mystery on scientific
poetical—perhaps an equally satisfactory, certainly a more intelligible, theory in his 'Phaedo ' (110 C), where, speak­ing of the " True World " or that above us in the heavens, he has, " The story is, that in the first place this supernal world presents exactly the same appearance, if viewed from above, as those children's balls covered with twelve different stripes ; for it is multicoloured and divided into compartments of different hues, of which the pigments we have here below, that is to say those used by painters, are mere samples. But in that world* all the earth itself is made up of such tints, and in great part also of others still more brilliant and more refined than these ; for one part is purple and wonderful for its beauty, another is gold-coloured, another whiter than plaster or snow so very white is it, and in the same measure that which is "composed of the other colours surpasses all those in our painters' stock : and moreover, some portions are made of others
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