he
evaporates away into mere mystic symbols of the private experiences of
the devout philosopher? Its practical everyday historieswhich deal with
the common human facts of family and national lifeof man's outward and
physical labour and craft. These to him have no meaningexcept an
allegoric one. But has he thrown them away for the sake of getting a step
nearer to Socratesor Platoor Aristotle? Surely not. To themas to the
old Jewish sagesman is most important when regarded not merely as a
soulbut as a mana social being of flesh and blood. Aristotle declares
politics to be the architectonical sciencethe family and social relations to
be the eternal master-facts of humanity. Platoin his Republicsets before
himself the Constitution of a Stateas the crowning problem of his
philosophy. Every work of hislike every saying of his master Socrates
deals with the commonoutwardvulgar facts of human lifeand asserts
that there is a divine meaning in themand that reverent induction from
them is the way to obtain the deepest truths. Socrates and Plato were as
little inclined to separate the man and the philosopher as MosesSolomon
or Isaiah were. When Philoby allegorising away the simple human
parts of his books
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