I'll put the search strings in bold, these are the beginning of a quote, and the link(s), the ulr(s), which are highlighted too, will be the quote(s) end(s)...
hmmph...reading for the previous post, The Obsolescence of Oracles, and from it!, I find Plutarchian curios after curios!...I'd like to hop from one to another in a single post, but best I'd say, to take one at a time, though that kind of lessens the magic of seeing them side by side...for the most part I'm sticking to what I learn are called the Pythian Dialogs...and there looks to be three of them, and they are conversations between Plutarch and his friends...and here is a curio bit from the one about the:
Letter E at Delphi
Also, the God is a prophet, and prophetic art deals with that future which is to come out of things present or things past. Nothing comes into being without a cause, nothing is known beforehand without a reason. Things which come into being follow things which have been, things which are to be follow things which now are coming into being, all bound in one continuous chain of evolution. Therefore he who knows how to link causes together into one, and combine them into a natural process, can also declare beforehand things15
Which are, which shall be, and which were of old.
ON THE 'E'* AT DELPHI
Browne's Miscellany Tract On Oracles
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/misctracts/plutarchE.htmlOn reading that, I thought, 'that's Darwin...and Newton...and both must have read Plutarch...did they borrow that to make their theories!?'...and so I did searches: Darwin Plutarch, and Newton Plutarch...the Newton Plutarch search brings up things, things Newton borrowed from Plutarch, but the Darwin Plutarch search didn't...which is surprising...maybe the scholars just haven't noted a connection in their studies, and related it to the web...I took a snip from the quote too, and added Darwin, but that didn't, and it should have, bring up a good Darwin Plutarch together reference, but it did bring up this marvel!
all bound in one continuous chain of evolution Darwin
‘A corollary of the highest importance may be deducted from the foregoing remarks, namely, that the structure of every organic being is related to the most essential yet often hidden manner, to that of all other organic beings.’ Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859
Comparative Genomics
http://www.thehumangenome.co.uk/THE_HUMAN_GENOME/Comparative_Genomics.h
The author of that page, which is one of a very long on line 'copy paste poem' about evolution and genetic, lists a whole bunch of quotes from many authors, Darwin much included, that go on in some fashion about genetics and evolution...'copy paste poems' are a kind of modern poetry form...don't know but Tree in the Door, and Tree in Door Fauna and Flora, are 'copy paste poems'...there's a name for this form...I found it when I was reading some about Ezra Pound, who wrote his Cantos using it...forget what it is...I tend to block out Pound! ('Collage and Poetry')...I think a lot of modern poets use it...and it's likely borrowed from modern painters who began putting things in their paintings they didn't do themselves...like making a collage with newspapers and magazine pictures...I've gone over this before when I went on about Jules Verne, something like: one copy/pastes a quote from an authority, and it lends authority to what one has written!...don't know but that started with Plutarch too!...
anyway, the author, Gillian K. Ferguson, oh...here in her own words:
quote
Some of the work was written in the wildest, most unspoiled reaches of the Scottish West Highlands, during the most intense contact with nature; other work done at the core of the city centre. In the most exulted of spirits; and most excruciatingly low. Some sources came to me via other people ‘backwards’ – i.e. after I had already written about certain subjects, and were added in gratefully; or even gleefully at such excellent, qualified, ‘expert’ support for my own modest thoughts… The poetry also spins out where it will – sometimes moving from poetic sequences tightly meshed with scientific facts or extracts, all the way out to memory switches simply tripped by the subject.
from the Introduction
http://www.thehumangenome.co.uk/THE_HUMAN_GENOME/Introduction.html
I thought to send her Plutarch's quote, it belongs with the others!
next: Plutarch's take on Puzzles
DavidDavid
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