Cosmos, Vol. 5

and passing away: for no thing comes into being or perishes, but rather existing things are mixed and separated, and one could rightly call "becoming" a process of being mixed, and "passing away" a process of being separated. The totality of things remains equal to itself. (Brandis Theory Vol. I. p. 240, Cosmos Vol. IV. p. 12.) The Anaxagorean Everything in Everything original: "πάντα ἐν πᾶσιν" (panta en pasin), or "ἐν παντὶ παντὸς μοῖρα ἔνεστι" (en panti pantos moira enesti) — "in everything there is a portion of everything." refers to the phenomena of metabolism The author uses "Stoffwechsel" (metabolism/material exchange) to explain how substances transform into one another.. If, according to the account of Sextus Empiricus (Outlines of Pyrrhonism Book I, 13, 33), Anaxagoras is said to have drawn the conclusion that snow is black because the water from which snow forms is black; while Cicero (Lucullus 31), on the other hand, lets him conclude for the same reason only that snow is not white; and Galen (On Simple Medicines II, 1) also attributes only the latter claim to him: it remains very doubtful whether the Clazomenian Anaxagoras was from the city of Clazomenae. himself called snow black as decisively as later writers assumed. (See on this Julius Ideler, Greek and Roman Meteorology 1832 p. 147 and his edition of Aristotle's Meteorology Vol. II. 1836 p. 481.) Anaxagoras likely only taught that every created thing contains parts of others (or of everything) within itself. — Compare Schelling, distinguished by his depth of thought and language (Collected Works Section I. Vol. 2. 1857 pp. 267—273; I, 3. 1858 pp. 24—26).

⁶ (p. 8.) The philosopher who believed he had proven the possibility of a philosophy of nature or speculative physics (Schelling’s Collected Works Section I. Vol. 3. p. 274), admits himself (p. 105): “that the force which rules in all of nature and through which nature is maintained in its identity, has not yet been discovered (derived). We find ourselves driven toward it; yet this single force always remains only a hypothesis, and it can be capable of infinitely many modifications, and be as diverse as the conditions under which it acts.” Matters, equipped with unchangeable forces (indestructible qualities according to our current means), are called chemical elements in our scientific language (Helmholtz on the Conservation of Force 1847 p. 4).

⁷ (p. 9.) Laplace, Exposition of the System of the World (5th ed. 1824) pp. 389—395 and 414.