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Logic IV. 155

Through the list of sciences, from the lofty to the lowly, he decides that they shall enter into the mixture. Let them all come in: (62D) in Homer's words,
[ancient greek]
This was what the advance of science in Plato's time seemed to him to be like. Ah!
Next he consideres what pleasures should be admitted into the mixture. He first decides to admit the ["true"] pleasures ([ancient greek?]. 62E) Next, [the?] necessary pleasures, if such there be ([ancient greek?]; 62E). Next, the innocent pleasures ([ancient greek?]63A.) so far as they really conducive to the purposes of life. The way this is said in the original is very pretty;