Socrates - Footnote 4

4. "When I was young I has a prodigious desire to know that department of philosophy called Natural science... then I heard someone who had a book of Anaxagoras, as he said, out of which he read that mind was the disposer and cause of all.  I was quite delighted at the notion of this which appeared admirable.. what hopes I had formed, and how grievously I dissappointed!  As I proceeded, I found my philosopher altogether forsaking mind or any other principle of order, but having recourse to air, ether, water, and other eccentricities."

Phaedo, Jowett translation of The Works of Plato, Four Volumes Complete in One, Tudor Publishing Company, pgs. 241-244 of Volume III.

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