:
"We cannot argue _from the reason of the thing_ that death is the
destruction of living agents because we know not at all what death is
in itself, but only some of its effects".
"We cannot argue _from the reason of the thing_ that death is the
destruction of living agents because we know not at all what death is
in itself, but only some of its effects".
Tennyson
,
and Matthew Arnold, 'The Youth of Nature'. ]
[Footnote 2: 'Cf. Palace of Art', "the riddle of the painful earth". ]
[Footnote 3: 'Seq'. The reference is to Acts of the Apostles vii.
54-60. ]
[Footnote 4: Suggested by Shakespeare, 'Julius Caesar', Act v. , Sc.
5:--
and _the elements_
So mix'd in' him that Nature, etc. ]
[Footnote 5: An excellent commentary on this is Clough's
_Perche pensa, pensando vecchia_. ]
[Footnote 6: 'Cf'. Job xiv. 21:
"His sons come to honour, and he knowcth it not; and they are brought
low, but he perceiveth it not of them. "]
[Footnote 7: So Bishop Butler, 'Analogy', ch. i.
:
"We cannot argue _from the reason of the thing_ that death is the
destruction of living agents because we know not at all what death is
in itself, but only some of its effects". ]
[Footnote 8: So Milton, enfolding this idea of death, 'Paradise
Lost', ii. , 672-3:--
What seemed his head
The _likeness_ of a kingly crown had on. ]
[Footnote 9: 'Cf'. Plato, 'Phaedo', x. :--
[Greek: ara echei alaetheian tina opsis te kai akoae tois anthr_opois.
Ae ta ge toiauta kai oi poiaetai haemin aei thrulousin oti out
akouomen akribes ouden oute or_omen]
"Have sight and hearing any truth in them? Are they not, as poets are
always telling us, inaccurate witnesses? "
The proper commentary on the whole of this passage is Plato
'passim', but the 'Phaedo' particularly, 'cf. Republic',
vii. , viii. and xiv. -xv. ]
[Footnote 10: An allusion to the myth that when souls are sent to occupy
a body again they drink of Lethe that they may forget their previous
existence. See the famous passage towards the end of the tenth book of
Plato's 'Republic':
"All persons are compelled to drink a certain quantity of the water,
but those who are not preserved by prudence drink more than the
quantity, and each as he drinks forgets everything".
So Milton, 'Paradise Lost', ii.
and Matthew Arnold, 'The Youth of Nature'. ]
[Footnote 2: 'Cf. Palace of Art', "the riddle of the painful earth". ]
[Footnote 3: 'Seq'. The reference is to Acts of the Apostles vii.
54-60. ]
[Footnote 4: Suggested by Shakespeare, 'Julius Caesar', Act v. , Sc.
5:--
and _the elements_
So mix'd in' him that Nature, etc. ]
[Footnote 5: An excellent commentary on this is Clough's
_Perche pensa, pensando vecchia_. ]
[Footnote 6: 'Cf'. Job xiv. 21:
"His sons come to honour, and he knowcth it not; and they are brought
low, but he perceiveth it not of them. "]
[Footnote 7: So Bishop Butler, 'Analogy', ch. i.
:
"We cannot argue _from the reason of the thing_ that death is the
destruction of living agents because we know not at all what death is
in itself, but only some of its effects". ]
[Footnote 8: So Milton, enfolding this idea of death, 'Paradise
Lost', ii. , 672-3:--
What seemed his head
The _likeness_ of a kingly crown had on. ]
[Footnote 9: 'Cf'. Plato, 'Phaedo', x. :--
[Greek: ara echei alaetheian tina opsis te kai akoae tois anthr_opois.
Ae ta ge toiauta kai oi poiaetai haemin aei thrulousin oti out
akouomen akribes ouden oute or_omen]
"Have sight and hearing any truth in them? Are they not, as poets are
always telling us, inaccurate witnesses? "
The proper commentary on the whole of this passage is Plato
'passim', but the 'Phaedo' particularly, 'cf. Republic',
vii. , viii. and xiv. -xv. ]
[Footnote 10: An allusion to the myth that when souls are sent to occupy
a body again they drink of Lethe that they may forget their previous
existence. See the famous passage towards the end of the tenth book of
Plato's 'Republic':
"All persons are compelled to drink a certain quantity of the water,
but those who are not preserved by prudence drink more than the
quantity, and each as he drinks forgets everything".
So Milton, 'Paradise Lost', ii.
