• Parmenides was an Eleatic philosopher, and pupil of Xenophanes. According to Ritter, History of Ancient Philosophy , I 450, Morrison’s Tr. , his theory was, that:⁠— “Being is uncreated and unchangeable, ‘Whole and self-generate, unchangeable, illimitable, Never was nor yet shall be its birth; All is already One from eternity.’ ” And farther on:⁠— “It is but a mere human opinion that things are produced and decay, are and are not, and change place and color. The whole has its principle in itself, and is in eternal rest; for powerful necessity holds it within the bonds of its own limits, and encloses it on all sides: being cannot be imperfect; for it is not in want of anything⁠—for if it were so, it would be in want of all.” Melissus of Samos was a follower of Parmenides, and maintained substantially the same doctrines. Brissus was a philosopher of less note. Mention is hardly made of him in the histories of philosophy, except as one of those who pursued that Fata Morgana of mathematicians, the quadrature of the circle. ↩