Note 936 — Chapter IX · LEUKIPPOS OF MILETOS

This prejudice is apparent all through Gomperz’s Greek Thinkers, and seriously impairs the value of that fascinating, though somewhat imaginative work. It is amusing to notice that Brieger, from the same point of view, regards the custom of making Anaxagoras the last of the Presocratics as due to theological prepossessions (Hermes, xxxvi. p. 185). I am sorry that I cannot agree with either side; but the bitterness of the disputants bears witness to the fundamental importance of the questions raised by the early Greek philosophers.