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Excerpt from The Republic of Plato, Book X: Edited as an Introduction to the Study of Plato's Philosophy
The Editor feels that he must justify himself to those who may use this book, as well for producing what is intended to serve as an Introduction to the study of Plato's Philosophy, as for the particular selection made.
Dr. J owett in the preface which he has written to Mr. Purves' Selections from Plato discourages the pre mature study of philosophy. Sooner or later, how ever, the higher classical education leads those who follow after it into the loftier regions of metaphysics, where a guide or, in the last resource, a guide-book is indispensable. It is in the humbler capacity that this book offers itself, for so wide is the ground covered by Platonic literature 1 that, undirected, the explorer may soon lose himself. Nor is the Editor acquainted with any other book which definitely proposes to help the beginner. He could have wished that some one of riper knowledge had undertaken to do so, but he feels himself to possess for the task at least one qualification - a due estimate of his own powers as compared with great Platonists, past and present, which has constantly dissuaded departure from the beaten track.
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