Plato, Philebus, section 29e

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[29e]

Socrates
Apply the same line of thought to that which we call the universe. It would likewise be a body, being composed of the same elements.

Protarchus
Quite right.

Socrates
Does our body derive, obtain, and possess from that body, or that body from ours, nourishment and everything else that we mentioned just now?

Protarchus
That, Socrates, is another question not worth asking.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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