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I leave the question open; it will perhaps tempt another more fortunate investigator. Is it possible that this would explain the fact of Aristotle lecturing to his pupils while walking about, thus giving the name "peripatetic" to his school and system? Die Phantasie als Grundprincip der Weltprocesses, München, 1877.
It is now well accepted that Thales cannot be regarded as propounding a materialistic theory when he declares that everything is derived from water; for with him, "water" stands not merely for the substance that we call chemically "H2O," but for the "spirit that is in water" as well the water-spirit is the Grundprincip. Max Müller, op. cit., 39, 47-48, 59-60.
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