1. Why did Socrates act the midwife’s part, rather than the parent’s?
in other words, why did he prefer to develop in the minds of others
the germs of knowledge, rather than communicate knowledge to them?
425-427. 2. Why does Plato call the supreme God the Father and Maker
of all things? 428, 429. 3. What does Plato, in his Republic, mean
by dividing the universe into unequal parts? and of the sections,
thus made, which is the greater, the Intelligible or the Sensible?
429-432. 4. Plato always says that the Soul is elder than the Body,
and the cause and principle of its rise. Yet he also says that
neither could the Soul exist without the Body, nor the Reason without
the Soul, but the Soul in the Body, and the Reason in the soul. How
can this be explained? 432. 5. Since geometrical figures and solids
are contained, partly by Rectilinears and partly by Circles, why does
Plato make Isosceles Triangles and Triangles of unequal sides the
Principles of Rectilinears, &c.? 433-435. 6. Why does Plato say that
the nature of a Wing participates most of the Body of God? 435. 7.
In what sense does Plato say that the Antiperistasis, or Reaction,
of Motion, is the cause of the effect, in using cupping-glasses, in
swallowing, in throwing of weights, in the use of the loadstone, &c.?
435-438. 8. What does he mean in the Timaeus when he says that Souls
are dispersed into the Earth, the Moon, and into other instruments
of time? Is the Earth, is the Sun, an instrument of time? 438-441.
9. Did Plato, in his Republic, place the Rational or the Irascible
Faculty in the middle chord of the human faculties? 441-444. 10.
Why did he say that Speech is composed of Nouns and Verbs? 444-449.
Because they are the principal elements, _ib._