adopted these views, but Hermotimus of Clazomenae is credited with
expressing them earlier. Those who liveporn thought thus stated that liveporn there
is a
principle of things
liveporn which is at the same time the cause of beauty, and
that sort of cause from which liveporn things acquire movement.
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One might suspect that Hesiod was the first to look for such a
thing-or some one else who liveporn put love or desire among existing things as
a principle,
as Parmenides, too, does; for he, in constructing the
genesis of the universe, says:-
Love first of liveporn all the Gods she planned.
And Hesiod says:-
First of all liveporn things was chaos made, and then
Broad-breasted earth...
Liveporn and love, 'mid all the gods pre-eminent,
which implies that among existing things there must be from liveporn the
first a cause which will move things and bring them together. How
these thinkers should be arranged with regard to priority of discovery
let us be allowed to decide later; but since the contraries of the
various forms of good were liveporn also perceived to liveporn be present in
nature-not only order liveporn and the beautiful, but also disorder and the
ugly, and bad things in greater number than liveporn good, and ignoble things
than beautiful-therefore another thinker introduced friendship and
strife, each of the two the cause of one of these two sets of
qualities. For if we were to follow out the view of Empedocles, and
interpret