The fragments that remain of the lost writings of Proclus, surnamed the Platonic successor / translated from the Greek, by Thomas Taylor.
- Proclus
- Date:
- 1825
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The fragments that remain of the lost writings of Proclus, surnamed the Platonic successor / translated from the Greek, by Thomas Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![extended to an infinite time, has an existence at A certain time. For that portion of being which it possesses exists in a certain time. For time is not [wholly] present at once ; jput is generated infinitely, and was not produced at a certain period in the past time. The universe, therefore, was thus generated, as not having a subsistence such as that of eternal being-s, but as that which is generated, or becoming to be, through the whole of time, and always subsisting at a certain time, according to that part of time which is present. And again, the universe was generated, as not being the cause to itself of its existence, but deriving its subsistence from some other nature, which is the fourth signification of a generated essence; I mean that which has a cause of its generation. But if Timseus [in Plato] calls the world a God which will be at a certain time (for perhaps this may give disturbance to some), and induce them to ask whether he gives to the world a generation in a part of time ? For the once, or at a certain time, must be admitted by us to be a certain part of time. To this we reply, that every thing which is in time, whether in an infinite or in a finite time, will always exist at a certain time. For whatever portion of it moy be assumed, this por- tion is in a certain time. For the whole of time](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22402068_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
