NRLF OF ARISTOTLE;LIFE CRITICAL DISCUSSIONA OF LITERARY HISTORYQUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH HIS WORKS. BY M.A.WILLIAMS BLAKESLEY,JOSEPH ft t CAMBRIDGE.TRINITY COLLEGE,FELLOW OF :CAMBRIDGE J. DEIGHTON.J. AND J. JOHN W. PARKER.LONDON: M.DCCC.XXX1X. ADVERTISEMENT. the authorTHE is intended byfollowing Essay in which heto be to a few others hopespreliminary of Ancientto an account of the severalgive systems of Plato andwhich in thosePhilosophy converged to some of the moreAristotle, importantpursue branches of in the course which tookspeculation they examineafter the hands of the and tolatter,leaving tothe success which has attended their cultivation up bethe time. Before this task could attemptedpresent with it was to enter someuponany advantage, necessary relative to the of literature,points history philosophical from the nature of no mode ofand, these, discussing in athem to them cri-appeared preferable interweaving tical of the founder of the School.biography Peripatetic The the first of atreatise, however,present although is in and it is the intentionseries, itself,complete of the towriter to a similarpreserve independence each of the others. CHAPTER I7EEINTRODUC SIfW T!