A history of science . s philosophyuntil rather late in life, when, liaving incurred the dis-pleasure of his fellow-citizens, he suffered the notunusual penalty of banishment. Of the three other great Italic leaders of thought ofthe early period, Xenophanes came rather late in Ufe toElea and founded the famous Eleatic School, of whichParmenides became the most distinguished two were lonians, and they lived in the sixthcentury before our era. Empedocles, the Sicilian,was of Doric origin. He lived about the middle of thefifth century , at a time, therefore, when Athenshad atta
A history of science . s philosophyuntil rather late in life, when, liaving incurred the dis-pleasure of his fellow-citizens, he suffered the notunusual penalty of banishment. Of the three other great Italic leaders of thought ofthe early period, Xenophanes came rather late in Ufe toElea and founded the famous Eleatic School, of whichParmenides became the most distinguished two were lonians, and they lived in the sixthcentury before our era. Empedocles, the Sicilian,was of Doric origin. He lived about the middle of thefifth century , at a time, therefore, when Athenshad attained a position of chief glory among the Greekstates; but there is no evidence that Empedocles evervisited that city, though it was rumored that he return-ed to the Peloponnesus to die. The other great Italicphilosophers just named, living, as we have seen, inthe previous century, can scarcely have thought ofAthens as a centre of Greek thought. Indeed, the veryfact that these men lived in Italy made that peninsula, 114. PYTHAGORAS(From an old print.) EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHERS IN ITALY rather than the mother-land of Greece, the centre ofHellenic influence. But all these men, it must con-stantly be borne in mind, were Greeks by birth andlanguage, fully recognized as such in their own timeand by posterity. Yet the fact that they lived in aland which was at no time a part of the geographicalterritory of Greece must not be forgotten. They, ortheir ancestors of recent generations, had been pioneersamong those venturesome colonists who reached outinto distant portions of the world, and made homesfor themselves in much the same spirit in which col-onists from Europe began to populate America sometwo thousand years later. In general, colonists fromthe different parts of Greece localized themselves some-what definitely in their new homes; yet there mustnaturally have been a good deal of commingling amongthe various families of pioneers, and, to a certain ex-tent, a mingling also with the
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