By John Philips, Gent.
Opinion of Plato concerning the soul, 326. Quotation from the Timaeus
of Plato, 326. Opinions of Xenocrates and Crantor, 327. Plato held
the eternity of matter, 328, 353. Nature of the soul, according
to Plato, 329, 330. The material of which the world was formed,
originally a shapeless mass existing from eternity, 331. It was
arranged in perfect and beautiful forms by God, 331, 336. The soul
of the world, 332, 351. Origin of evil, 333, 334. Reconciliation of
Plato with himself, 335-337. His real meaning, 337. The four original
elements of all created, corporeal things, 337. The soul is both
created and uncreated, 338. The subject illustrated by geometry and
the doctrine of ratios, 339-345. And by the musical scale, 345-349.
Relation of spirit to matter, 350. The opinion of those philosophers
refuted who make the soul a compound of both, 351. The soul of the
world, what? 352. The divisible and the indivisible: the Other and
the Same, 326, 350, 354, _et seq._ The four elements, how
related, 355. Generation, what? 356. Two discordant principles rule
the world,—Fate or Necessity, and Intelligence or Wisdom, 357, 358.
The soul is not altogether the workmanship of the Deity, 359. Another
illustration from geometry, 360. Illustration from the planetary
system, 361, 362. And from musical science, 361, 367.