Chapter 643: New Light
The incarnation of the god of medicine descended and shocked the world.
The prestige of Su Ye and Euclid surpassed that of the day of the war ceremony.
Countless Greeks lamented that Suye and Euclid saved Greece first and then Athens.
As for the matter of the Temple of Vengeance, as for the death of the Grand Inquisitor Leona, it became an insignificant little wave in the Aegean Sea, fluttered a few times and disappeared.
Euclid's funeral took place in the port of the dumb.
As the sky dawned, the first group left their homes and headed for the Dumb Harbor.
These people were the Athenians and their families who were afflicted by the plague, and there were thousands of them.
After a while, another group of people also went, because they all knew that Su Ye and Euclid were good friends, and Su Ye would definitely attend Euclid funeral.
Eventually, many Athenians went to the port of Dumb one after another.
On the beach of the Dumb Harbor, with its back to the Aegean Sea, a light brown wooden podium was erected.
In front of the wooden podium, wooden chairs made by magic are lined up.
The wooden chairs were filled with teachers and students of Plato's Academy, magicians from all walks of life, and a very small number of nobles.
And most of the people stood more than ten meters away, standing on the beach and on the road.
More than 100,000 people can fill almost the entire dumb port.
Larens, the provost of Plato's Academy, personally officiated at the funeral.
At the end of the funeral, Larens announced: "At the end of the funeral, ask Euclid's friend Aristotle to come forward and recite a memorial message." ”
Aristotle walked up to the pulpit with his unkempt hair like a bird's nest, his face gloomy, his bird's nest sunken, and the blood in his eyes in two large nets.
He stood in front of the podium for a long time before he reached out blankly and stroked his spatial ring.
After a long while, he raised his head, looked at the teachers and students of Plato's Academy in front of him, and looked at the crowd of hundreds of thousands of black oppressors, and then suddenly realized.
Aristotle put on a magic beard, took out a few more blank pieces of paper, spread them on the podium, and pressed them with magic power.
The sea breeze blew through the Dumb Harbor, blowing his hair like a forest in the wind.
He reached out and gently stroked the white paper, then turned his head to look at the deep blue Aegean Sea and the faint sky under the sun.
He turned his head and glanced at the ritual in front of him.
When he watched it for the first time, he had already memorized it with a talent for unforgettable.
I watched it over and over again last night.
Aristotle took a deep breath, raised his head, and glanced ahead.
He saw that the students of Plato's Academy had red eyes, especially some girls, whose eyes were swollen into peaches.
Aristotle opened his mouth, but said nothing, and tried several times in a row before he could make a sound.
"I don't want to attend this funeral because I assume Euclid is still alive."
He paused, and suddenly there was a cry from the audience.
There were Euclid's students, his former classmates, and his friends.
Aristotle's eyes instantly turned red.
He waited quietly, waiting for the sea breeze to blow away the cry before he continued to speak.
"A friend who gave me this memorial before he left Athens said that he wanted me to officiate at Euclid's funeral for him. I don't want to host, however, I should recite the article for him. The 'I' below refers to my mutual friend with Euclid, a seventeen-year-old boy who had to leave Athens. ”
Countless magicians gritted their teeth and clenched their fists.
"I'm a fantasy person, so at a very young age, I thought about the question, what is the most fundamental difference between humans and animals?"
"Is it that people can use all kinds of tools, but animals can't? In fact, monkeys not only use tools, but even make simple tools out of tree branches. ”
"Is it because people can speak? It turns out that animals also have their own language system, but we humans can't understand it. ”
"Is it a person who can use words or symbols? Even the fish on the bottom of the sea create some peculiar symbols when they are courting. ”
"Is it man who knows how to love? We know that the love between animals is equally warm. ”
"Curious? There is an animal called the silly roe deer, which is more curious than humans. ”
"What, then, is the most essential difference between humans and animals?"
"I thought about it for a long time, until one day, I came up with an answer that may not be correct enough, but I like it."
"When we think about why, we are fundamentally different from animals. When we are asking why, looking for why, we are the beginning of becoming a sage. ”
"Thales, the great father of philosophy and magic, once questioned the nature of the world, layer by layer, and in the end, he believed that the essence of the world is water, water makes up all things, water nourishes all things, and water carries all things. Presumably many people disagree with this essence now, including me, but it doesn't matter. The important thing is that he is as great as he pushes open the door at the junction of animals and people, so that we can become real people, not better animals. ”
"It was precisely because of the layers of questioning that he came up with the concept of 'proof', and his previous mathematics and geometry were widespread in Egypt and the two rivers. Because of the constant questioning, he realized that only the proven existence is the real existence. Unproven, not true. His 'proof' opened the door to mathematics, geometry, philosophy and magic, forming many to one abstractions, and then expanding from one to many. Through proof, we gain a better way of thinking, rather than just instinct, feeling, and intuition to determine something. ”
"In the days that followed, inspired by Thales, Pythagoras studied mathematics and geometry, and Parmenides sought 'being'. The greatest feat of the Pythagoras master is to 'abstract' the 'number' on the basis of proof, and he clearly tells us that the 'real world' we see before our eyes is changing, for example, one person plus one person is equal to two people, and these two people will grow old, will die, and will completely disappear from human memory, but, 1+1=2, these numbers and relations, but they are eternal and exist in the 'real world'. ”
"Not only Pythagoras was influenced by Master Thales, but later Leuchipp and Democritus also carried out the pursuit of the nature of the world, and on the basis of Master Thales's 'water is the source of all things', these two masters went a step further, completely putting aside the existence of the 'real world', and instead created and abstracted an invisible substance called 'atom', believing that this is the basis for the indismantability of all things."
"After Thales, many sages began to pursue the essence of the world, some pursued 'numbers', some pursued 'atoms', and Socrates began to pursue the 'self', and Plato's master wanted to pursue a 'greater self', that is, the city-state, that is, to establish an ideal kingdom."
"Not long ago, the appearance of Master Eudox found a new door, and Aristotle's logic opened this new door for mankind, allowing us to see a new world. Euclid followed suit, not only establishing a complete geometry, but also using axiomatization to open the door to a new world once again. ”
Aristotle paused for a moment, glanced at the audience, and said: "This sentence is a digression, I, Aristotle, want to make it clear that Eudox was indeed the first to discover the prototype of logic and axiomatization, but the first person who really contributed to the rationalization of logic and axiomatization was Su Ye, followed by me and Euclid." Therefore, whether it is the first author of "Syllogism" or "Geometric Original", it is Su Ye. Okay, then, I'll continue to recite the prayer. ”
"I know that many people don't care about these people, what Thales, what Socrates, what Plato, what Aristotle, what Euclid, so far away from themselves, can paying attention to them make you have more money, bigger houses, and higher power?"
"I want to say, yes. Focusing on them doesn't make you gain anything, but if you can learn their methods, learn the thinking behind the decision methods, and apply them in any field, you will be invincible! ”
"I have always been in awe and humble of these great people."
"It is the presence of these great men, and it is the existence of the followers of these great men, that has accelerated the growth of our human beings."
"It is the existence of these people that makes us think that human beings are on a big ship, but we forget that we are at sea."
"We can dislike them, we can not care about them, we can be lazy, we can give up, we can constantly struggle between pleasure and pain, and we can even forget to pursue a longer happiness."
"But please don't stop or ridicule them and their followers, because with them, we can have peace of mind and not work hard."
"Otherwise, we will only be reduced to monkeys crawling all over the mountain, pigs in a pigsty."
"Their existence retains a glimmer of hope for humanity and for everyone."
"They are like bright beacons that rise into the sky, shining on the world. Anyone who wants to get rid of the past and become a better version of themselves can open their arms anytime and anywhere, embrace their brilliance, and then, become a light chaser, persevere, until they become a new beacon. ”
"Anyone."
"It's not about their greatness, it's about why they're great, and what we can learn."
"Euclid will not die, he will live forever with axiomatization and the Geometry."
"I am not mourning his death, I am celebrating, shining a new light in the world."
"Perhaps, something is blocking the brilliance of the sages, but the great light will surely break through the dark clouds and re-illuminate the world."
Aristotle put away the manuscript paper and placed it in the Ring of Space.
He suddenly smiled naturally.
"As I said, Euclid is alive and I see his new light."
"Thank you to everyone who came to the scene."
Aristotle nodded slightly and turned to leave.
He puffed out his chest high, and his eyes shone brightly.
The crowd looked silently at the empty podium, at the end of the sky and the sea.
There, new light flickered.