and “metaphysical.” Socrates, the father of Ethics, if we may trust Aristotle, declared that o?? ??' ? �?? ?e??s?a? t? sp??da???? e??a?, ? ?a?????. (Moralia Magna, i. 9.) Moreover, Aristotle himself expresses the same view; pa?? ??? d??e? ??asta t?? ???? ?p???e?? ??se? t??' ?a? ??? d??a???, ?a? s?????????, ?a? t???a ???�e? e??y? ?? ?e?et??. (Eth. Nicom. vi. 13.) We find also a similar conviction very decidedly expressed in the fragments attributed to the Pythagorean Archytas, and preserved by Stobaeus in the Florilegium (Chap. i. � 77). If not authentic, they are certainly very old. Orelli gives them in his Opuscula Graecorum Sententiosa et Moralia. There (Vol. II., p. 240) we read in the Dorian dialect as follows: — ??? ??? ?????? ?a? ?p?de??es?? p?t????�??a? ??et?? d??? ?p?st?�a? p?ta???e?e?, ??et?? d?,