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come into being in a tuneless condition, and the harmony is the last of all to be composed and the first to perish. So how can you bring this theory into harmony with the other?”“I cannot at all,” said Simmias.“And yet,” said Socrates, “there ought to be harmony between it and the theory about harmony above all others.”“Yes, there ought,” said Simmias.“Well,” said he, “there is no harmony between the two theories. Now which do you prefer, that knowledge is recollection or that the soul is a harmony?”“The former, decidedly, Socrates,” he replied. “For this other came to me without demonstration; it merely seemed probable
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