Chapter XIV.—Hippo; His Duality of Principles; His Psychology.
Hippo, a native of Rhegium, asserted as
originating principles, coldness, for instance water, and heat, for
instance fire. And that fire, when produced by water, subdued the
power of its generator, and formed the world. And the soul, he
said, is sometimes brain, but
sometimes water; for that also the seed is that which appears to us to
arise out of moisture, from which, he says, the soul is
produced.
So far, then, we think we have sufficiently adduced (the
opinions of) these; wherefore, inasmuch as we have adequately gone in
review through the tenets of physical speculators, it seems to remain
that we now turn to Socrates and Plato, who gave especial preference to
moral philosophy.