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he infers that they are objects of the Divine 

 mind. 



In the Phaedo the same opinion is maintained, 

 and is summed up in this way, by a reporter of the 

 last conversation of Socrates 26 elvat TI e/cacn-oi/ TWV 



clowv, KOL TOVTWV r'ttXAct /ULTa\afj.(3dvovTa. avTwv TOVTWV 



rriv eTTcawfjiiav 'ia^eiv ; " that each Kind has an exist- 

 ence, and that other things partake of these Kinds, 

 and are called according to the Kind of which they 

 partake." 



The inference drawn from this view was, that 

 in order to obtain true and certain knowledge, men 

 must elevate themselves, as much as possible, to 

 these Ideas of the qualities which they have to 

 consider : and as things were thus called after the 

 Ideas, the Ideas had a priority and pre-eminence 

 assigned them. The Idea of Good, Beautiful, and 

 Wise, was the " First Good," the " First Beautiful," 

 the "First Wise." This dignity and distinction 

 were ultimately carried to a large extent. Those 

 Ideas were described as eternal and self-subsisting, 

 forming an " Intelligible World," full of the models 

 or archetypes of created things. But it is not to 

 our purpose here to consider the Platonic Ideas in 

 their theological bearings. In physics they were 

 applied in the same form as in morals. The primum 

 calidum, primum frigidum, were those Ideas or 

 fundamental Principles by participation of which, all 

 things were hot or cold. 



28 Pha?do, p. 102. 



