thinker, not an artist. One goes to
him for discipline, for thought, for
training in a very high sense; one
does not go to him for form, beauty,
or personality. It is a clear, distinct,
logical order of ideas, a definite system
which he gives us; not a view of life,
a disclosure of the nature of man, a
synthesis of ideas touched with beauty,
dramatically arranged and set in the
atmosphere of Athenian life. For
these things one goes to Plato, who
is not only a thinker, but an artist of
wonderful gifts, -- one who so closely
and beautifully relates Greek thought
to Greek life that we seem not to be
studying a system of philosophy, but
mingling with the society of Athens
in its most fascinating groups and at
its most significant moments. To the
student of Aristotle the personality
of the writer counts for nothing; to

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