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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I that beautiful things are made beautiful. Don't you agree with me? Certainly I do. And consequently, that it is by greatness that great things become great, and greater things greater, and by smalness that the less become less? Then neither would you assent, if any one were to maintain that a man is taller than another ' by the head, ' and that one who is shorter is shorter by precisely the same thing: but you would protest that you have nothing 101 else to say about the matter than that every thing that is greater, one than another, is greater by nothing else than by greatness, and that the cause of its being greater is its greatness; and that the less.is less by nothing else than smalness, and that the cause of its being less is its smalness; dreading no doubt the encounter of some adverse argument, if you assert that a person is taller or shorter by the head, first, that it is by the very same thing that the greater is greater and the less less, and secondly, that your greater is greater by the head which is a little thing, and that it would be indeed a prodigy that a man should be great by a little thing. You would be afraid of this, wouldn't you ? Cebes laughed at this, and replied, I certainly should. Well, said he, that ten is more than eight by two, and that two is the reason of its excess, you would be afraid to assert, instead of saying by number and by reason of its number? and that two cubits are greater than one by half, and not by size? for there is the same fear, I imagine. Undoubtedly, he said. And again, in the case of' the addition of one, wouldn't you carefully avoid saying that the addition is 1 eiri evas. The Zurich editors read e 6-Js. the cause of their becoming two, or, when a thing is divided, the division; and loudly exclaim t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217783415 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217783414 |
| Weight | 0.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 In |
| List Price | $8.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 100 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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