Mirror of Literature,  11 (1828), 400.

[Suicide of Aristotle]

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Anecdote

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Scientific Practitioners


    'The Gulf of Negropont, in Greece, ebbs and flows seven times a day. Aristotle not being able to give any rational account of this phenomenon, drowned himself therein, saying, "If I cannot understand thee, thou shalt take me"'.



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