Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Name: Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
Author: Plutarch

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Now what occurred to me then to say against him, in the defence of those philosophers, hath been already put into writing by me.
For emulation can never enter that godlike consort, nor such fretfulness as wants resolution to conceal its own resentments.

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PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYSSample
Preface
BOOK I.
Preface
CHAPTER III. WHAT ARE PRINCIPLES?
CHAPTER VII. WHAT IS GOD?
CHAPTER IX. OF MATTER.
CHAPTER X. OF IDEAS.
CHAPTER XI. OF CAUSES.
CHAPTER XII. OF BODIES.
CHAPTER XV. OF COLORS.
CHAPTER XVI. OF THE DIVISION OF BODIES.
CHAPTER XVIII. OF A VACUUM.
CHAPTER XXIII. OF MOTION.
CHAPTER XXIV. OF GENERATION AND CORRUPTION.
CHAPTER XXVII. OF DESTINY OR FATE.
CHAPTER I. OF THE WORLD.
CHAPTER III. WHETHER THE WORLD BE an ANIMAL.
CHAPTER XX. OF THE ESSENCE OF THE SUN.
CHAPTER XXI. OF THE MAGNITUDE OF THE SUN.
CHAPTER XXV. OF THE ESSENCE OF THE MOON.
CHAPTER XXVII. OF THE FIGURE OF THE MOON.
CHAPTER XXIX. OF THE ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.
BOOK III.
CHAPTER IV. OF CLOUDS, RAIN, SNOW, AND HAIL.
CHAPTER V. OF THE RAINBOW.
CHAPTER VII. OF WINDS.
CHAPTER VIII. OF WINTER AND SUMMER.
CHAPTER X. OF THE FIGURE OF THE EARTH.
CHAPTER XII. OF THE INCLINATION OF THE EARTH.
CHAPTER XIII. OF THE MOTION OF THE EARTH.
CHAPTER XV. OF EARTHQUAKES.
CHAPTER I. OF THE OVERFLOWING OF THE NILE.
CHAPTER II. OF THE SOUL.
CHAPTER IV. OF THE PARTS OF THE SOUL.
CHAPTER VII. OF THE SOUL'S IMMORTALITY.
CHAPTER X. HOW MANY SENSES ARE THERE?
CHAPTER XVI. OF HEARING.
CHAPTER XIX. OF THE VOICE.
CHAPTER XXII. OF RESPIRATION OR BREATHING.
Preface
CHAPTER I. OF DIVINATION.
CHAPTER II. WHENCE DREAMS DO ARISE.
CHAPTER III. OF THE NATURE OF GENERATIVE SEED.
CHAPTER IV. WHETHER THE SPERM BE A BODY.
CHAPTER XV. WHETHER THE INFANT IN THE MOTHER'S WOMB BE an ANIMAL.
CHAPTER XXVI. HOW PLANTS INCREASE.
CHAPTER XXVII. OF NUTRITION AND GROWTH.
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CHAPTER XXX. OF HEALTH, SICKNESS, AND OLD AGE.
BOOK 1.
Preface
BOOK II.
Preface
BOOK III
Preface
BOOK IV.
Preface
BOOK V.
Preface
BOOK VI.
BOOK VII.
Preface
BOOK VIII.
Preface
BOOK IX
Preface
LAMPRIAS, DIADUMENUS
CONTRADICTIONS OF THE STOICS.
THE EATING OF FLESH.
CONCERNING FATE.
PLATONIC QUESTIONS.
Preface
THE LIFE AND POETRY OF HOMER
THE BANQUET OF THE SEVEN WISE MEN.
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INDEX.