[150] Cf. the excellent remarks of Teichmüller, Lit. Fehden, p. 107.
[151] Repub., V., 471, D.
[152] He mentions as one of the worst effects of a democracy that it made them assume airs of equality with men. Repub., 563, B.; cf. 569, E. Timaeus, 90, E. It is to be feared that Plato regarded woman as the missing link.
[153] In his Vorträge und Abhandlungen, first series, p. 68.
[154] Legg., 739, B. Jowett, V., 311.
[155] [Since the above was first published, Teichmüller has brought forward new arguments to prove that it was Plato’s scheme of Communism which Aristophanes intended to satirise (Lit. Fehden, pp. 14, ff.); but I do not think that even the first half of the Republic could possibly have been composed at such an early date as that assigned to it by this learned and ingenious critic.]
[156] [Here, also, the recent arguments of Teichmüller (Lit. Fehden, p. 51) deserve attention, but they have failed to convince me that an earlier date should be assigned to the Euthydêmus.]
[157] We may even say that they are reduced to two; for Existence is a product of Sameness and Difference.
[158] Gesch. d. Ph., II., 175.
[159] In the work already referred to, Teichmüller advances the startling theory that Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics was published before the completion of the Laws, and that Plato took the opportunity thus offered him for replying to the criticisms of his former pupil. (Lit. Fehden, pp. 194-226).