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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2009
I must begin by apologizing for taking a somewhat well-worn subject for my theme. My reason is that I have not yet found a recent treatment of it which is altogether to my satisfaction. Most of them seem to me too often to approach the subject from a point of view which, in a way, expects too much from the study of Plato or any other ancient author, and consequently either makes exaggerated claims for it or fails to do justice to what we really can learn.
1 Note.—This paper was originally delivered as a lecture to the Classical Association some time before the outbreak of war. I have not thought it necessary to make any alteration, except a few verbal ones, in the original form.