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it is almost equally so treat his argument as most thinkers now do with utter disdain. Immediately following this marvelous argument is one of Plato's
grand poetical visions inspired but unhealthy wholesome in small doses only. I cannot resist copying one little sample of it "Noow the supercelestial place neither has anyone hymned yet of the number of the poets here not ever will hymn worthily and it is as follows. For one must date at least to tell the truth especially when it is concerning truth that he is speaking. For the colorless unfigured [foreign text] i.e. like a constellation in the heavens of which the figure bear woman or what use is not visibly marked but the word suggests also the absence of any figure of speech or twisting of truth and inapparent real essence of the soul is visible to the only pilot Reason about which the genus of the true science has this place for its home. Now just as God's mind is nourished by Reason and Uncontaminated Science so that of every soul provided it is fit to receive what is proper when it sees after an interval the what is and gazing upon the true is nourished and comforted until another revolution brings it back to the same place and in the course of her orbit she looks upon very righteousness she looks upon