[502] _L’Histoire comparée des Systèmes de Philos._, par De Gérando, et des _Mélanges de Phil._, par Ancillon de Berlin. These two writers, whatever one may say, have analysed very well the logical part of Kantism, and have penetrated, especially the former, into the rational part, as far as it was possible, for men who write upon the system of a philosopher without adopting the principles and making themselves his followers. [503] _Krit. der Reinen Vernunft_; çà et là, en plusieurs endroits. [504] This is taken from the _Vedanta_, a metaphysical treatise attributed to Vyasa and commented upon by Sankarâchârya. [505] Justin, _Cohort. ad Gent._, p. 6; Cyrill., _Contr. Julian_. [506] Plutar., _de Procr. anim._; Chalcid., _in Tim._, n. 293. [507] Plato, _in Tim._; ibid., _in Theet._; ibid., _de Rep._, l. iv. Conférez avec Proclus, _Comment. in Tim._, l. i.; Marc-Aurel., l. iv., l. ix., et l. x.; et Beausobre, _Hist. du Manich._, t. ii., p. 175, etc. [508] The idea of making the quaternary spring from the unity, and the decade from the quaternary is expressed literally in the following lines of Pythagoras, preserved by Proclus: … Πρόεισιν ὁ θεῖος ἀριθμὸς Μονάδος ἐκ κευθμῶνος ἀκηράτου, ἔς τ’ ἂν ἵκηται Τετράδ’ ἑπὶ ζαθέην, ἣ δὴ τέκε μητέρα πάντων, Πανδοχέα, πρέσβειραν, ὅρον περὶ πᾶσι τιθεῖσαν, Ἄτροπον, ἀκαμάτην, δεκάδα κλείουσί μιν ἁγνήν· The Monad, of Number is the sacred source; From it Number emanates and holds the virtues With which shines the Tetrad, Universal Mother, Which produces all things and conceals in its depths The immortal Decade, honoured in all places. [509] The nearest root of this word is _find_, whence is derived _finden_, to find; its remote root is _hand_, the seat of touch, whence comes _finger_, that which feels; its primitive root is אד or יד (_âd_ or _id_), the hand in Phœnician. This last root, becoming nasal at the final and aspirate at the initial, has produced _hand_; _fang_, a capture, and _find_, a discovery. The syllable _emp_, which precedes the root _find_, expresses the movement which lifts up from below; _lich_ designates that which disqualifies by identity, and _keit_, that which substantiates. [510] The root of this word is _stand_, a fixed thing, a state; its remote root is _stat_, that which is permanent. Its primitive root is שדד (_shdad_), firmness, force, constancy. The initial syllable _ver_ expresses the movement which carries far away, which transports from the place where one is, to that where one is not.