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and that is was written before any of the rest of that work. I suppose of course that it was revised with insestions and omissions in putting the whole together but such revision would hardly produce any sensible effect upon the sort of data upon which stylometry is founded. Plato would seem to have been nearly of the opinion of Edgar Poe that the best part of a work of art should be written if not first of all yet immediately after the introduction. In this 10th book we have the doctrine of ideas which is just suggested at the end of the [Cratylios?] in the crude form which it took when first worked up into a theory. Here it is manufactured articles which above all have ideas. later such ideas drop into insignificance or are denied. A large part of the dialogue is occupied with an attack on poetry. He interrupts this to prove that soul is immortal. For nothing can be destroyed by external agency and the inherents corruption of the sould does not destroy it. This rediculous argument is dropped in The Phaedo. Since no sould is destroyed, none