1 84 JESSAYS SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL. 



heat is cold, that which is moist is parched, that 

 which is dried up is wet." 1 "Good and evil are 

 the same." 2 (( Gods are mortal, men immortal : 

 our life is their death, our death their life," 3 

 "Upward and downward are the same." 4 "The 

 beginning and the end are one." 5 " Life and 

 death, sleeping and waking, youth and age are 

 identical." 6 



This is what reason tells the philosopher. " All 

 is ONE." The world is a unity of opposing forces 



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rooi). 7 "Join together whole and not whole, 

 agreeing and different, harmonious and discordant. 

 Out of all comes one : out of one all." 8 " God 

 is day-night, winter-summer, war-peace, repletion- 

 want." 9 The very rhythm of nature is strife. 

 War, which men hate and the poets would banish, 

 " is the father and lord of all." 10 But " men are 

 without understanding, they hear and hear not," n 

 or " they hear and understand not." 12 For they 

 trust to their senses, which are " false witnesses." 13 

 They see the contradictions, but know not that 

 "the different is at unity with itself." 14 They 

 cannot see the "hidden harmony, which is greater 



1 Heracl. Eph. Rell., xxxix. * Ibid., Ivii. 



Ibid., Ixvii. * Ibid., Ixix. 5 Ibid., Ixx. 



6 Ibid., Ixxviii. ' Ibid., xlv. 8 Ibid., lix. 



9 Ibid., xxxvi. 10 Ibid., xliv. Ibid., iii. 



12 Ibid., Y. u Ibid^ iv. l4 Ibid., X!Y. 



