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| Parmenides; His Theory of “Unity;” His Eschatology.
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Chapter
IX.—Parmenides; His Theory of “Unity;” His
Eschatology.
For Parmenides92
likewise supposes the universe to be one, both eternal and unbegotten,
and of a spherical form. And neither did he escape the opinion of
the great body (of speculators), affirming fire and earth to be the
originating principles of the universe—the earth as matter, but
the fire as cause, even an efficient one. He asserted that the
world would be destroyed, but in what way he does not mention.93
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sentence is regarded by some as not genuine. | The same (philosopher), however,
affirmed the universe to be eternal, and not generated, and of
spherical form and homogeneous, but not having a figure in itself, and
immoveable and limited.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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