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arose in the Ionic school, which was exclusively 

 devoted to physical speculations. In Lower Italy, 

 on the contrary, and in colonies which were for the 

 most part Doric, a science was constituted which, 

 although it included physics and natural phe- 

 nomena, did not only consider their material value, 

 but sought to extract from their laws and harmony 

 a criterion of good and evil. Flitter observes that 

 the intimate connection between the Pythagorean 

 philosophy and lyrical music of which the origin 

 was sought as a clue to explain the world shows 

 how far this philosophy was consonant with Doric 

 thought. This historic process is quite natural, 

 since the speculations of philosophy are first directed 

 to physical phenomena, as they are displayed in ' 

 inward and in external life, and then rise to the 

 consideration of specific types, in a word, to the 

 general and the universal. 



Throughout this philosophical evolution the con- 

 sideration is mainly from the objective point of view, 

 and this is in conformity with the intellectual evolu- 

 tion of reason, since the mind is first occupied with 

 the knowledge of things. In accordance with tradition 

 and the logic of things, Ionic speculation was developed 

 before the Doric. The Eleatie school followed from 

 the two former, although its development was 

 contemporary with the more perfect stage of these, 

 and its influence upon them was to some extent 

 reactionary. 



