The Metaphysics of Aristotle - Translated From the Greek; With Copious Notes, in Which the Phythagoric and Platonic Dogmas Respecting Numbers and Ideas Unfolded Antient Sources #229347

This, too, is peculiar to Ariftotle, that he was never willing to depart from nature, but even contemplated things which tranfcend nature through a natural habit and knowledge; juft as,' on the con trary, the divine Plato, after the manner of the Pythagoraeans, con templated whatever is natural fo far as it partakes of that which is divine and above nature: fo that the former confidered theology phyfically, and the latter phyfics theologically. He likewife never employs fables and enigmas, and never afcends into the marvellous and the myflic, but adopts obfcurity as a fubfiitute for every other veil, and involved mode Of writing; the reafon Of which we pro pofed to invel'tigate, as the fourth object Of inquiry.