Considered, then, in regard to either one of Then let us begin again, and ask, If one is, what their affections, they will be like themselves and must be the affections of the others?
one another; considered in reference to both of Let us ask that question.
them together, most opposed and most unlike.
Must not the one be distinct from the others, That appears to be true.
and the others from the one?
Then the others are both like and unlike them-Why so?
selves and one another?
Why, because there is nothing else beside them True.
which is distinct from both of them; for the ex-And they are the same and also different from pression ‘one and the others’ includes all things.
one another, and in motion and at rest, and ex-Yes, all things.
perience every sort of opposite affection, as may Then we cannot suppose that there is anything be proved without difficulty of them, since they different from them in which both the one and have been shown to have experienced the affec-the others might exist?
tions aforesaid?
There is nothing.
True.
Then the one and the others are never in the 1.bb. Suppose, now, that we leave the further same?
discussion of these matters as evident, and con-True.
sider again upon the hypothesis that the one is, Then they are separated from each other?
whether opposite of all this is or is not equally Yes.
true of the others.
And we surely cannot say that what is truly By all means.
one has parts?