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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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to heights sometimesof 4,500 feet; plateaus almost destitute of vege-tation, fertile valleys, and coast lands. Theclimate is warm and salubrious. The finest aloesof the world are grown here; also dates. Live-stock raising is an important industry. The peo-ple are a mixed race (negro, Arab and Indian),but present two distinct types. In 1876 the Eng-lish government entered into a treaty with theruling sultan, declaring a suzerainty, and in1886 annexed the island. English and Germanexpeditions have investigated its natural features.Tamarida is the principal town. Pop. (est.)4,000. Socrates, sokra-tez, Greek philosopher: b.Athens, in 469 B.C.; d. 399 B.C. His father,Sophroniscus, was a sculptor, and Socrates him-self followed this occupation for a time. Hismother, Phsenarete, was a mid-wife. In his youthhe received the education prescribed by the laws,and also made himself acquainted with geometryand astronomy. That he had listened to Ana.xag-oras or Archelaus is only reported by antrust-
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.siiC-RATl-.: SOCRATES worthy authorities; Plato accounts for his mas-ters acquaintance with the works of the formerby supposing that he had read the work writtenby that philosopher. According to Xenophon hewas familiar with the doctrines of other naturalphilosophers, although he did not accept them.Plato represents Socrates as saying that, w-hilestill very young, he met Parmenides, the mostimportant of the Eleatic philosophers, who wasthen advanced in years, as the latter was ex-pounding his doctrines. A material influence onhis philosophical development was exercised bythe Sophists, to whose discourses he occasionallylistened, and with whom he frequently enteredinto conversation. Excepting in connection withhis philosophical career, only a few circumstancesof his life are known. He served as a hopliteor heavily armed soldier in the campaign ofPotidaea (432-429 b.c), where he excelled hisfellow soldiers in the ease with which he en-dured the hardships of a winter campaign, dis-tingui

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