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THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY.377"with itself.3 This was the nature of that workwhich Thales and Pythagoras commenced. Letus give O a glance O at the race which bore them, ' andof which they were representative men.This race had dwelt for some ages » \^ K-7 in A-L-i. Greece \_^ JL \~* \-/ X> V> *and from thence occupied by emigration the shoresof Asia Minor, Sicily, and Southern Italy, with apart of Africa. Pythagoras, the father of Italianphilosophy, had migrated from Samos to Crotona,having visited Egypt, examined and gathered fromall the stores of its knowledge. A century*laterHerodotus, the father of Greek history, migratedlikewise from his country Halicarnassus, and afterspending many years in extensive travels throughEgypt and Western Asia settled at Thurii. Inthe succeeding century Plato travelled in like mannerwith similar purposes. He was familiar withSicily as with his own Attica, not to speak of Egyptor Phoenicia. These three great men, Pythagoras,Herodotus, and Plato, are specimens herein of thecultured Greek, the gentleman, as we should callhim. Thus though Greece proper was a verysmall country, the whole region from middleItaly, including Sicily, and the rich coast-land ofNorthern Africa from Carthage O to Egypt, O§/ * withi3 Zeller, die Philosophic der Griechen, 2te Aufl. vol. i. pp. 6 and 35."Philosophy/3 says Grote, Plato, vol. i. v. "is, or amis at becoming,reasoned truth: an aggregate of matters believed or disbelieved afterconscious process of examination gone through by the mind and capableof being explained to others:" who quotes Cicero's " Philosophia ex ra-tionum collatione consistit"