"It has been no easy task to revise this volume in such a way as to make it more worthy of the favour with which it has been received. Most of it has had to be rewritten in the light of certain discoveries made since the publication of the first edition, above all, that of the extracts from Menonās IĪ±ĻĻĪ¹ĪŗĪ¬, which have furnished, as I believe, a clue to the history of Pythagoreanism."
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