Cutting-up Atlantis (Five)

Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded sacred registers to be eight thousand years ago, I will briefly inform you of their particulars of the whole we will hereafter themselves. If you compare these very laws the counterpart of yours as they were in the of priests, which is separated from all the several crafts by themselves and do not and of hunters, as well as that of husbandmen in Egypt are distinct from all other class themselves solely to military pursuits; looks to the unchangeable and fashions the pattern, must necessarily be made fair only, and uses a created pattern, it is not fair or called by this or by any more a question which has to be asked at the world, I say, always in existence and? Created, I reply, being visible and all sensible things are apprehended and created. Now that which is created a cause. But the father and maker of all this him, to tell him to all men would be down from above on the fields, having always which reason the traditions preserved here are The fact is, that whatever the extremity of mankind exist, sometimes in greater, sometimes either in your country or in ours, or in any other were any actions noble or great or in any other down by us of old, and are preserved in our nations are beginning to be provided with letters after the usual interval, the stream from heaven leaves only those of you who are destitute of a tendency to come up from below; for the most ancient. they are in some way related to them. To great honour; he asked the priests who were and made the discovery that neither he nor mentioning about the times of old. On one antiquity, he began to tell about the most Phoroneus, who is called the “first man,” survival of Deucalion and Pyrrha; and he reckoning up the dates, tried to compute speaking happened. Thereupon on of the Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never any among you. Solon in return asked him mind you are all young; there is no old tradition, nor any science which is hoary been, and will be again, many destructions greatest have been brought about by the innumerable other causes. There is a story, Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. For unprovoked made an expedition against the city put an end. This power came forth out of Atlantic was navigable, and there was an island you called the Pillars of Heracles; the island and was the way to other islands, and from these opposite continent which surrounded the true of Heracles is only a harbour, having a narrow a tendency to come up from below; for the most ancient. frost or of summer does not prevent, in lesser numbers. And whatever happened region of which we are informed if there way remarkable, they have all been written. Whereas just when you and other and the other requisites of civilized life, like a pestilence, comes pouring down, and education; and so you have to begin

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Cut up of an original text, Timaeus, by Plato