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Anaxagoras proceeded to give some account of the stages in the process from original chaos to present arrangements.
The division into cold mist and warm ether first broke the spell of confusion.
With increasing cold, the former gave rise to water, earth and stones.
The seeds of life which continued floating in the air were carried down with the rains and produced vegetation.
Animals, including man, sprang from the warm and moist clay.
If these things be so, then the evidence of the senses must be held in slight esteem.
We seem to see things coming into being and passing from it ; but reflection tells us that decease and growth only mean a new aggregation ( synkrisis ) and disruption ( diakrisis ).
Thus Anaxagoras distrusted the senses, and gave the preference to the conclusions of reflection.
Thus he maintained that there must be blackness as well as whiteness in snow ; how otherwise could it be turned into dark water?

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