So he accepted Empedocles elements as a kind of intermediary between this imponderable stuff and the tangible world. |
The notion of a previous state of existence is found in the verses of Empedocles and in the fragments of Heracleitus. |
He wondered if it really was Thales so much as Empedocles or Ctesias. |
In 1852, Arnold published his second volume of poems, Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. |
To his left Pythagoras is writing on his knee, and near him, with ink and pen, is Empedocles. |
Empedocles had believed in four ultimate and underived kinds of matter. |