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| § | 2. | The Ionians give the main impulse; tendency of philosophical speculation among the Ionians | 240 |
| § | 3. | Retrospect of the theological speculations of Pherecydes | ib. |
| § | 4. | Thales; he combines practical talents with bold ideas concerning the nature of things | 241 |
| § | 5. | Anaximander, a writer and inquirer on the nature of things | 242 |
| § | 6. | Anaximenes pursues the physical inquiries of his predecessors | 243 |
| § | 7. | Heraclitus; profound character of his natural philosophy | 244 |
| § | 8. | Changes introduced by Anaxagoras; new direction of the physical speculations of the Ionians | 246 |
| § | 9. | Diogenes continues the early doctrine. Archelaus, an Anaxagorean, carries the Ionic philosophy to Athens | 248 |
| § | 10. | Doctrines of the Eleatics, founded by Xenophanes; their enthusiastic character is expressed in a poetic form | 249 |
| § | 11. | Parmenides gives a logical form to the doctrines of Xenophanes; plan of his poem | 251 |
| § | 12. | Further development of the Eleatic doctrine by Melissus and Zeno | 252 |
| § | 13. | Empedocles, akin to Anaxagoras and the Eleatics, but conceives lofty ideas of his own | 253 |
| § | 14. | Italic school; receives its impulse from an Ionian, which is modified by the Doric character of the inhabitants. Coincidence of its practical tendency with its philosophical principle | 255 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |||
| THE EARLY GREEK HISTORIANS. | |||
| § | 1. | High antiquity of history in Asia; causes of its comparative lateness among the Greeks | 258 |
| § | 2. | Origin of history among the Greeks. The Ionians, particularly the Milesians, took the lead | 260 |
| § | 3. | Mythological historians; Cadmus, Acusilaus | 261 |
| § | 4. | Extensive geographical knowledge of Hecatæus; his freer treatment of native traditions | ib. |
| § | 5. | Pherecydes; his genealogical arrangement of traditions and history | 263 |
| § | 6. | Charon; his chronicles of general and special history | ib. |
| § | 7. | Hellanicus; a learned inquirer into mythical and true history. Beginning of chronological researches | 264 |
| § | 8. | Xanthus, an acute observer. Dionysius of Miletus, the historian of the Persian wars | ib. |
| § | 9. | General remarks on the composition and style of the logographers | 265 |
| CHAPTER XIX. | |||
| HERODOTUS. | |||
| § | 1. | Events of the life of Herodotus | 266 |
| § | 2. | His travels | 267 |
| § | 3. | Gradual formation of his work | 268 |
| § | 4. | Its plan | 269 |
