{4} Pliny says ("Nat. Hist.," lib. xi., cap. 62) that the young
vipers, impatient to be born, break through the side of their
mother, and so kill her.

{5} Part 2. Borrowed from by Philosophers.

{6} Timaeus, the Pythagorean philosopher of Locri, and the Athenian
Critias are represented by Plato as having listened to the discourse
of Socrates on a Republic. Socrates calls on them to show such a
state in action. Critias will tell of the rescue of Europe by the
ancient citizens of Attica, 10,000 years before, from an inroad of
countless invaders who came from the vast island of Atlantis, in the
Western Ocean; a struggle of which record was preserved in the
temple of Naith or Athene at Sais, in Egypt, and handed down,
through Solon, by family tradition to Critias. But first Timaeus
agrees to expound the structure of the universe; then Critias, in a
piece left unfinished by Plato, proceeds to show an ideal society in
action against pressure of a danger that seems irresistible.

{7} Plato's "Republic," book ii.

{8} Part 3. Borrowed from by Historians.

{9} Part 4. Honoured by the Romans as Sacred and Prophetic.

{10} Part 5. And really sacred and prophetic in the Psalms of
David.

{11} Part 6. By the Greeks, Poets were honoured with the name of
Makers.