AGAINST COLOTES, THE DISCIPLE AND FAVORITE OF EPICURUS. BY A. G., GENT. Occasion of this tract; a book written by Colotes, 338. Plutarch undertakes to answer it, and why, 339, 340. Colotes wrongly represents Democritus, 341. Our senses give us true information, but it does not follow that the different qualities which are perceived in the same object by different persons prove that nothing is of one nature more than another, 341-343. This argument further applied, 344. Does color exist in the dark? 344, 345. Doctrine of Democritus concerning atoms, 346. Are atoms immutable and impassible? 347, 348. How then can any thing be generated? 348. Is generation the mere union of atoms? 348. According to Colotes life cannot exist, 349. His doctrines virtually abolish nature, 349. Is nature nothing distinct from bodies and their place? 350. Is death nothing but that which dies? 350. Empedocles defended from the misrepresentations of Colotes, 350, 351. Parmenides also defended, 352-354. A thing positively existing distinguished from its sensible qualities, 354. Aristotle and the Peripatetics differed from Plato, 355. Colotes misrepresents Plato, 355, 356. Difference between that which exists by itself, and that which participates of something else; or between essence and form, 356-359. Colotes falls at the feet of Epicurus, 360. Epicurus accepts the homage, 360. Disparagement of Socrates by Colotes, 361. Though our senses are not perfect, they may in general be safely relied on, 362. If self-knowledge is valuable, Colotes is blamable for scoffing at those who seek it, 363. Stilpo defended against Colotes, 365-367. That one thing cannot be predicated of another may not endanger life, 365. It is bad to withhold reverence and worship from the gods, as Colotes and the Epicureans do, 366. Colotes assaults the philosophers of his own time, 367. He condemns even the opinions of Epicurus, when he finds them held by others, 368, 369. The Cyrenaic philosophers ridiculed, 369. Arcesilaus unfairly treated by Colotes, 371. Three sorts of motions in the soul: what they are; their influence, 371, 372. Absurdity of Epicureanism, 373. The opinions of Epicurus tend to universal scepticism, 374. It is well and safe in some cases to withhold our assent, and to doubt in matters which do not appear credible, as did Arcesilaus and his followers, 371-376. Safety of believing and following the doctrines of Socrates, Plato, and the Academy, 377. Degradation and danger resulting from the doctrines of Epicurus, 377, 378. Those doctrines fatal to the state, 379. No people, no city, is found without some religion, but Epicureanism subverts all religion, 380. Great public spirit of Democritus, Parmenides, Socrates, Plato, and others, who are reviled by Colotes and other Epicureans, 381, 382. Men of the school of Epicurus do not contribute to the public welfare, 383-385.