על הזיווג לשם ההשכלה (על לימודי היסוד) כ״וOn Mating with the Preliminary Studies 26
א׳
1[146] And indeed this too is general knowledge that all the particular arts have their origins and the germs from which the conclusions they reach seem to spring, as a gift from philosophy. For such further matters as isosceles and scalene triangles, and circles and polygons and the other figures are the discovery of geometry; but when we come to the nature of the point, the line, the superficies and the solid which are the roots and foundations of those named above, we leave geometry behind.
ב׳
2[147] For whence does she obtain the definition of a point as that which has no parts, of a line as length without breadth, of superficies as that which has length and breadth only, and of a solid as that which has three dimensions, length, breadth, and depth? For these belong to philosophy, and the whole subject of definitions is the philosopher’s province.
ג׳
3[148] Again the lower stage of grammar, sometimes by a slight modification of γραμματική called γραμματιστική, undertakes to teach reading and writing, while the task of the higher stage is the elucidation of the writings of the poets and historians. When therefore they discourse on the parts of speech, are they not encroaching on, and casually appropriating the discoveries of philosophy?
ד׳
4[149] For it is the exclusive property of philosophy to examine what a conjunction is, or a noun, or a verb, or a common as distinguished from a proper noun, or in the sentence what is meant by defective or complete or declaratory or inquiry, or question, or comprehensive, or precatory, or imprecatory. For to her is due the system which embraces the study of complete sentences and propositions and predicates.
ה׳
5[150] Again, the observation of the semi-vowel, the vowel and the completely voiceless or consonant, and the usage of each, and the whole field of phonetics and the elements of sound and the parts of speech, have been worked out and brought to its consummation by philosophy. From this, as from a torrent, the plagiarists have drawn a few small drops, squeezed them into their still smaller souls, and do not blush to parade what they have filched as their own.