Time is the (23) Space is the (23) Individuals are principium principium material.
The explanation of the cause of evil by a particular principle, per principium maleficum, is of the same nature.
The last is simply a principium cognoscendi, whereas the other is a principium essendi.
All the arts I have cited above are superfluous if the writer really possesses any intellect, for it allows a man to show himself as he is and verifies for all time what Horace said: Scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.
He is not merely the principium principiatum but the principium principians (see Trench Epistles to the Seven Churches p.
Scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons=--Good sense is both the first principle and parent-source of good writing.
Man indeed is the principium of the Universal Man but no Universal Man exists (a.
It is the Intellect that grasps these principles, and applies them to their legitimate purpose of scientific demonstration; hence Aristotle calls Intellect not only the principium of Science, but the principium principii.
For, if there were many heavens, as there are many men, the principiumof each would be one in specie, though the principia would be many in numero (p.
But it is not competent to Plato to assume what he sometimes does assume as principium (p.
To these, as a principle of the second rank, must be added the principium indiscernibilium, or the principle that there are in nature no two things wholly alike.
That first beginning is the principium principiorum, the beginning of all beginnings, and must be distinguished from the six new beginnings of the six days' work.
It is a great error in physiology not to distinguish between what may be called the general or fundamental life--the principium vitae, and the functional life--the life in the functions.
