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Excerpt from The World as Will and Idea, Vol. 3 On this account, it may he remarked in passing, my direct antipode among philosophers is Anaxagoras for he assumed arbitrarily as that which is first and original, from which everything proceeds, a rave, an intelligence, 9. Subject of ideas, and he is regarded as the first who pro mulgated such a View. According to him the world existed earlier in the mere idea than in itself while according to me it is the unconscious will which constitutes the reality of things, and its development must have advanced very far before it finally attains, in the animal consciousness, to the idea and intelligence; so that, according to me, thought appears as the very last. However, according to the testi mony of Aristotle (metaph, i. Anaxagoras himself did not know how to begin much with his vovq, but merely set it up, and then left it standing like a painted saint at the entrance, without making use of it in his develop ment of nature, except in cases of need, when he did not know how else to help himself. All physico-theology is a carrying out of the error opposed to the truth expressed at the beginning of this chapter - the error that the most perfect form of the origin of things is that which is brought about by means of an intellect. Therefore it draws a bolt against all deep exploration of nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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