 There is here an implicit contrast between Xenocrates and Speusippus, whose universe was to Aristotle discontinuous or disjointed: Xenocrates’ universe is at least a more orderly one (see the entry on  Speusippus).  And something like this rather faint praise is echoed in Theophrastus’ Metaphysics. Theophrastus complains that Pythagoreans and Platonists fail to give us a full story about the construction of the universe: they just go so far and stop (6a15–b6). Then he says (6b6–9):