jamblichus's

Updated: May 25, 2025

Jamblichus's "Life of Pythagoras" works more directly on the will than the others; since Pythagoras was eminently a practical person, the founder of a school of ascetics and socialists, a planter of colonies, and nowise a man of abstract studies alone. The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858