anaximan'der

Updated: May 6, 2025

Diog'enes, the Cretan, was led to regard the universe as issuing from an intelligent principle a rational as well as sensitive soul but without recognizing any distinction between mind and matter; while Anaximan'der conceived the primitive state of the universe to have been a vast chaos or infinity, containing the elements from which the world was constructed by inherent or self-moving processes of separation and combination.

Marcius Willson - Mosaics of Grecian History