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“No,” he said, “and I fancy I never shall
hear it either.”“Bearing
all this in mind, recall our former question. Can the multitude possibly
tolerate or believe in the reality of the beautiful in itself as opposed to
the multiplicity of beautiful things, or can they believe in anything
conceived in its essence as opposed to the many particulars?”
“Not in the least,” he said. “Philosophy,
then, the love of wisdom,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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