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ANATTO (possibly a native See also:American name, with many variants such as annatto, arnotto)  , a colouring See also:matter produced from the seeds of Bixa orellana (natural See also:order Flacourtiaceae), a small See also:tree which grows in Central and Sauth See also:America . The seeds are surrounded with a thin coating of a waxy pulp, which is separated from them by washing in See also:water, passing the liquid through a See also:sieve and allowing the suspended pulp to See also:deposit . The water is then drained away and the See also:paste dried, till it is a thick, stiff, unctuous See also:mass . In this See also:state it has a dark See also:orange-red See also:colour and is known as " See also:roll " or " See also:flag " arnotto, according to the See also:form in which it is put up, but when further dried it is called\ " cake " arnotto . Arnotto is much used by See also:South See also:American See also:Indians for See also:painting their bodies; among civilized communities its See also:principal use is for colouring See also:butter, See also:cheese and varnishes . It yields a fugitive See also:bright orange colour, and is to some extent used alone, or in See also:conjunction with other dyes, in the See also:dyeing of silks and in See also:calico See also:printing . It contains a yellow colouring matter, bixin, C16H2602 . See also:ANA%AGORAS, See also:Greek philosopher, was See also:born probably about the See also:year 500 B.C . (See also:Apollodorus ap . Diog . Laert. ii . 7.) At his native See also:town of See also:Clazomenae in See also:Asia See also:Minor, he had, it appears, some amount of See also:property and prospects of See also:political See also:influence, both of which he surrendered, from a fear that they would hinder his See also:search after knowledge .

Nothing is known of his teachers; there is no See also:

reason for the theory that he studied under Hermotimus of Clazomenae, the See also:ancient See also:miracle-worker . In See also:early manhood (c . 464-462 B.c.) he went to See also:Athens, which was rapidly becoming the headquarters of Greek culture . There he is said to have remained for See also:thirty years . See also:Pericles learned to love and admire him and the poet See also:Euripides derived from him an See also:enthusiasm for See also:science and humanity . Some authorities assert that even See also:Socrates was among his disciples . His influence was due partly to his astronomical and mathematical See also:eminence, but still more to the ascetic dignity of his nature and his superiority to See also:ordinary weaknesses—traits which See also:legend has embalmed . It was he who brought See also:philosophy and the spirit of scientific inquiry from See also:Ionia to Athens . His observations of the See also:celestial bodies led him to form new theories of the universal order, and brought him into collision with the popular faith . He attempted, not without success, to give a scientific See also:account of eclipses, meteors, rainbows and the See also:sun, which he described as a mass of blazing See also:metal, larger than the See also:Peloponnesus; the heavenly bodies were masses of See also:stone torn from the See also:earth and ignited by rapid rotation . The ignorant polytheism of the See also:time could not tolerate such explanation, and the enemies of Pericles used the superstitions of their countrymen as a means of attacking him in the See also:person of his friend . Anaxagoras was arrested on a See also:charge of contravening the established dogmas of See also:religion (some say the charge was one of Medism), and it required all the eloquence of Pericles to secure his acquittal .

Even so he was forced to retire from Athens to See also:

Lampsacus (434-433 B.C.), where he died about 428 B.C., honoured and respected by the whole See also:city . It is difficult to See also:present the cosmical theory of Anaxagoras in an intelligible See also:scheme . All things have existed in a sort of way from the beginning . But originally they existed in infinitesimally small fragments of themselves, endless in number and inextricably combined throughout the universe . All things existed in this mass, but in a confused and indistinguishable form . There were the seeds (oirEppara) or miniatures of See also:corn and flesh and See also:gold in the See also:primitive mixture; but these parts, of like nature with their wholes (the opolopepij of See also:Aristotle), had to be eliminated from the complex mass before they could receive a definite name and See also:character . The existing See also:species of things having thus been transferred, with all their specialities, to the prehistoric See also:stage, they were multiplied endlessly in number, by reducing their See also:size through continued subdivision; at the same time each one thing is so indissolubly connected with everyother that the keenest See also:analysis can never completely sever them . The See also:work of arrangement, the segregation of like from unlike and the summation of the ol.coto,uep11 into totals of the same name, was the work of Mind or Reason; iravra xpijpara iv opoii • stra vows EABlav See also:aura &EK6apnve . This See also:peculiar thing, called Mind (vows), was no less illimitable than the chaotic mass, but, unlike the Intelligence of Heraclitus (q.v.), it stood pure and See also:independent (pouvos E¢' lwurou), a thing of finer texture, alike in all its manifestations and every-where the same . This subtle See also:agent, possessed of all knowledge and See also:power, is especially seen ruling in all the forms of See also:life . Its first See also:appearance, and the only manifestation of it which Anaxagoras describes, is See also:Motion . It originated a rotatory See also:movement in the mass (a movement far exceeding the most rapid in the See also:world as we know it), which, arising in one corner or point, gradually extended till it gave distinctness and reality to the aggregates of like parts .

But even after it has done its best, the See also:

original intermixture of things is not wholly overcome . No one thing in the world is ever abruptly separated, as by the See also:blow of an See also:axe, from the See also:rest of things . The name given to it signifies merely that in that congeries of fragments the particular " See also:seed " is preponderant . Every a of this present universe is only a by a See also:majority, and is also in lesser number b, c, d . It is noteworthy that Aristotle accuses Anaxagoras of failing to differentiate between vows and ¢uxii, while Socrates (See also:Plato, See also:Phaedo, 98 B) See also:objects that his vows is merely a See also:deus ex machina to which he refuses to attribute See also:design and knowledge . Anaxagoras proceeded to give some account of the stages in the See also:process from original See also:chaos to present arrangements . The See also:division into See also:cold mist and warm See also:ether first See also:broke the spell of confusion . With increasing cold, the former gave rise to water, earth and stones . The seeds of life which continued floating in the See also:air were carried down with the rains and produced vegetation . Animals, including See also:man, sprang from the warm and moist See also:clay . If these things be so, then the See also:evidence of the senses must be held in slight esteem . We seem to see things coming into being and passing from it; but reflection tells us that decease and growth only mean a new See also:aggregation (air-yowls) and disruption (&aeptvts) .

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Thus Anaxagoras distrusted the senses, and gave the preference to the conclusions of reflection . Thus he maintained that there must be blackness as well as whiteness in See also:

snow; how otherwise could it be turned into dark water ? Anaxagoras marks a turning-point in the See also:history of philosophy . With him See also:speculation passed from the colonies of See also:Greece to See also:settle at Athens . By the theory of See also:minute constituents of things, and his emphasis on See also:mechanical processes in the formation of order, he paved the way for the atomic theory . By his enunciation of the order that comes from reason, on the other See also:hand, he suggested, though he seems not to have stated explicitly, the theory that nature is the work of design . The conception of reason in the world passed from him to Aristotle, to whom it seemed the See also:dawn of sober thought after a See also:night of disordered dreams . From Aristotle it descended to his commentators, and under the influence of See also:Averroes became the See also:engrossing topic of speculation . AurHoRITIEs.—The fragments of Anaxagoras have been collected by E . Schaubach (See also:Leipzig, 1827), and W . Schorn (See also:Bonn, 1829) ; see also F . W .

A . Mullach, Fragmenta Philos . Graec. i . 243-252 ; A . See also:

Fair-See also:banks, The First Philosophers of Greece (1898) . For See also:criticism see T . See also:Gomperz, Greek Thinkers (Eng. trans., L . See also:Magnus, 1901), bk. ii. See also:chap . 4; E . Bersot, De controversis quibusdam Anaxagorae doctrinis (See also:Paris, 1844) ; E . See also:Zeller, See also:Die Philosophic der Griechen (Eng. trans., S . F .

Alleyne, 2 vols., See also:

London, 1881) ; J . M . See also:Robertson, See also:Short History of Freethought (London, 1906); W . Windelband, History of Philosophy (Eng. trans., J . H . Tufts, 1893) ; J . I . Beare, Greek Theories of Elementary See also:Cognition (1906) ; L . Parmentier, Euripide et Anaxagore (1892) ; F . See also:Lortzing, " Bericht uber die griechischen Philosophen vor Sokrates " (for the years 1876–1897) in See also:Bursian's Jahresbericht uber die Fortschritte der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, cxvi . (1904), with references to important articles in See also:periodicals . (W .

W.; J . M .

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