The cock sings the hours. He has sung midnight.

The memory of it is abolished by the death of most of those who had heard it told...

“You have (the old priest said to Solon) a knowledge and a genius whose hair never turns white. You are all merely children.”

Each person, having an occupation he cannot practice without another’s occupation, is the more attached to society and the more held within it. In the same way, a bird with a feather plucked from its wing is more easily reduced to a more constant state of domesticity.

Plato. — The intellect is to the soul what the soul is to the body.

“Solidum absque terra nihil.” Plat. in Timaeo.

The thing best suited to binding (says Plato) is that which mingles and merges so thoroughly with what it unites that it merges and seems to make only one and the same thing with it. — God (says Plato) is air, which is a substance intermediate between fire, earth, and water, and which unites all three.

Plato. — Beauty is born of like parts, that is, corresponding, balanced, doubled parts, etc.

It had no need of eyes (says Plato of the world, which he makes a vast animal), it had no need of ears or organs for breathing. For outside or beyond it there is no,...

The sun makes the year and the moon the months.

It is the workman who made the world. Man was made by his apprentices.

There are currents in man that perform the offices of organs. It is chiefly through them that thought and feeling take place. They are like subtle nerves and fibers. Etc.

There really is light in the eyes, independent of the light they receive from outside and that enters them. Sight requires the cooperation of this ocular, inward light and the other light, solar, outward, and objective, that is, coming from the object.

The theory of colors and their composition through mixtures is very well set out in the Timaeus. The painters of that time therefore could not have been ignorant of it, and their practice certainly preceded and followed this theory.

(Completed December 31, 1791.)