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Logic IV. 72
by virtue partaking of absolute beauty [foreign text]100C. If anybody tells Plato that the beauty of the beautiful object considered depends upon tints of low chroma or upon the prevalence of curves of contrary flexure, he avows he can see no sense in such a statement. A few pages back Plato had pronounced it to be an inscrutable mystery how the addition of one to one can possibly make two and an equal mystery how to partition of a thing should convert the whole thing into two parts. (97A.) I have not got hold of the wrong book and copied this out of Tom Cobb or Engaged it is written in one of the greatest productions of one of the greatest of souls. He now assures us that there was a time when he himself was simpleton as to suppose that two added to eight would make the sum more than eight! [foreign text] 96E. How intensely ridiculous to imagine that two though quite destitute of more than eight ness could impart more than eight ness