of Eretria ; of the Dialectical school, Clitomachus of Carthage ; of the Peripatetic, Aristotle of Stagira ; of the Stoic, Zeno of Citium; while the Epicurean school took its name from Epicurus himself. Hippobotus in his work Ox Philosophical Sects declares that there are nine sects or schools, and gives them in this order : (1) Megarian, (2) Eretrian, (3) Cyrenaic, (4) Epicurean, (5) Annicerean,? (6) Theodorean, (7) Zenonian or Stoic, (8) Old Academic, (9) Peripatetic. He passes over the Cynic, Elian, and Dialectical schools; for as to the Pyrrhonians, so indefinite are their conclusions that hardly any authorities allow them to be a sect; some allow their claim in certain respects, but not in others. It would seem, however, that they are a sect, for we use the term of those who in their attitude to appearance follow or seem to follow some principle ; and on this ground we should be justified in calling the Sceptics a sect. But if we are to understand by “sect ’’ a bias in favour of coherent positive doctrines, they could no longer be called a sect,? for they have no positive doctrines. So much for the beginnings of philosophy, its subsequent developments, its various parts, and the number of the philosophic sects. One word more : not long ago an Eclectic school was introduced by Potamo of Alexandria,¢ who