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For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study certainly compels the
soul to look upwardCf. my review if Warburg,
Class. Phil. xxiv. (1929) p.
319. The dramatic misunderstanding forestalls a possible understanding by
the reader. Cf. on 523 B. The misapprehension is typical of modern
misunderstandings. Glaucon is here the prototype of all sentimental
Platonists or anti-Platonists. The meaning of “higher”
things in Plato's allegory is obvious. But Glaucon takes it literally.
Similarly, modern critics, taking Plato's imagery literally and pressing
single expressions apart from the total context, have inferred that Plato
would be hostile to all the applications of modern science to experience.
They refuse to make allowan