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“Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,--not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Anaximander. ii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 54436f5122001de4f83b93e3a4af3aa41f23f4a7c029d8b8c8e1d82a8515831a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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