This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...have appeared to his followers like a guiding star for their inner life shining in all its glory; and thus it is depicted by Plato's master hand. It must have increased their admiration for their teacher, their zeal to imitate him, their devotion to his teaching. By his death the stamp of higher truth was impressed on ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...have appeared to his followers like a guiding star for their inner life shining in all its glory; and thus it is depicted by Plato's master hand. It must have increased their admiration for their teacher, their zeal to imitate him, their devotion to his teaching. By his death the stamp of higher truth was impressed on his'life and words. The sublime repose and happy cheerfulness with which he met death, was the strongest corroboration of all his convictions, the zenith of a long life devoted to knowledge and virtue. Death did not add to the substance of his teaching, but it added greatly to its influence. A life had been spent in sowing the seeds of knowledge with a zeal unequalled by any other philosopher either before or after; the result was seen at his death, when they brought forth fruit abundantly in the Socratic Schools. PAET III. THE IMPERFECT FOLLOWERS OF SOCRATES. CHAPTER XI. THE SCHOOL OF SOCRATES: HIS POPULAR PHILOSOPHY. XENOrHON: SCHINES. Chap. A Mind so great and active in every way as that XL of Socrates could not fail to make a lasting impresA. School sion on every kind of character with which it came of Socrates. conacj. But if the most perfect systems are often not understood by their adherents in the sense in which they were intended by their authors, may not a much greater dissimilarity and difference of apprehension be expected, in a case where no complete system existed, but where there were only fragments and germs of what might be one--a person, a principle, a method, a mass of individual utterances and of occasional discussions? The greater part of the followers of Socrates confined their attention to what was most obvious, and lay nearest to an ordinary intelligence--the originality, the purity of character, the intelligent view of...
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