with a great nature; there must result
a certain liberation of the imagination,
a certain widening of experience, a
certain ripening of the mind of the
student. The beauty of form, the
varied and vital aspects of religious,
social, and individual character, the
splendour and charm of a nobly or-
dered art in temples, speech, manners,
and dress, the constant suggestion of
the deep humanism behind that art
and of the freshness and reality of all
its forms of expression, -- these things
are as much and as great a part of
the "Dialogues" as the thought; and
they are full of that quality which
enriches and ripens the mind that
comes under their influence. In these
qualities of his style, quite as much as
in his ideas, is to be found the real
Plato, the great artist, who refused to
consider philosophy as an abstract

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