In truth this edifice was never destroyed. Plato, who took from Pythagoras the whole of his metaphysics, had a complete idea thereof, though he unfolded it with less clearness and precision. The Alexandrine school occupied the upper storeys of the edifice, whilst modern science has taken the ground-floor and strengthened its foundations. Numerous philosophical schools and mystical or religious sects have inhabited its many chambers. No philosophy, however, has yet embraced the whole of it. It is this whole I have endeavoured to reveal here in all its harmony and unity. THE END _Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, London and Bungay._ FOOTNOTES: [1] The _Amphictyonic oath_ of the allied peoples gives some idea of the greatness and social might of this institution: “We swear that we will never overthrow Amphictyonic towns, never, during either peace or war, prevent them from obtaining whatever is necessary for their needs. Should any power dare to attempt this, we will march against it and destroy its towns. Should impious hands remove the offerings of the temple of Apollo, we swear that we will use our feet, our arms, our voice, and all our strength against them and their accomplices.” [2] _The Golden Verses of Pythagoras._ [3] Iamblichus relates this fact in his _Life of Pythagoras_. [4] _The Oracles of Zoroaster_, taken from the theurgy of Proclus. [5] Reichenbach called this fluid _odyle_. His work has been translated into English by Gregory: _Researches on Magnetism, Electricity, Heat, Light, Crystalization and Chemical Attraction_.--London, 1850. [6] See the Bulletin of the Société de Pyschologie Physiologique. M. Charcot, president, 1885. See more especially the fine book by M. Ochorowicz, _De la Suggestion Mentale_, Paris, 1887. [7] There is a great deal of literature on this subject, very unequal in value, in France, Germany and England. I will here mention two books in which the subject is treated scientifically by men of real worth. (1) _Letters on Animal Magnetism_, by William Gregory, London, 1850. Gregory was a professor of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. His book is a profound study of the phenomena of animal magnetism, from suggestion to vision at a distance and lucid clairvoyance, on subjects observed by himself, in accordance with scientific method, and with minute exactness.