. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . .:^,,l^^SM&^^. 600-450. Greek Philosophy, which reached itshighest excellence at Athens in the fourthcentury before Christ, had its origin two hundred years earlierin the outlying settlements of the Hellenic race in Asia Minor,Thrace, Sicily and Southern Italy, rather than in Greeceproper. The founding of colonies and frequent changes ofgovernment in the older states led thoughtful men to studythe constitution of man and of society. Such were most ofthose who have become famous as The Seven Wis
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . .:^,,l^^SM&^^. 600-450. Greek Philosophy, which reached itshighest excellence at Athens in the fourthcentury before Christ, had its origin two hundred years earlierin the outlying settlements of the Hellenic race in Asia Minor,Thrace, Sicily and Southern Italy, rather than in Greeceproper. The founding of colonies and frequent changes ofgovernment in the older states led thoughtful men to studythe constitution of man and of society. Such were most ofthose who have become famous as The Seven Wise were prominent in their respective cities and some wereknown as tyrants, that is, persons who had seized supremepower. Other thinkers turned from the unsatisfactory explan-ations of the external world, its phenomena and origin, em-bodied in the current mythology, to direct investigation ofnature, and thus laid the foundations of science, as now under-stood. First and foremost among these was Thales of Ephe-sus, to whom the Ionic School of Philosophy traced its knowledg
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