[279] Laws, x; Jowett, v, 295–98. [↑]
[280] Received myths are forbidden; and the preferred fictions are to be city law. Cp. the Laws, ii, iii; Jowett, v, 42, 79. [↑]
[281] Laws, Jowett’s tr. 3rd ed. v, 271–72. Cp. the comment of Benn, i, 271–72. [↑]
[282] Republic, bk. ii, 379; Jowett, iii, 62. [↑]
[283] Laws, x, 906–907, 910; Jowett, v, 293–94, 297–98. [↑]
[284] On the inconsistency of the whole doctrine see see Grote’s Plato, iv, 379–97. [↑]
[285] Ueberweg, Hist. of Philos. Eng. tr. i, 25. Cp. Lange, Geschichte des Materialismus, i, 38–39 (tr. i, 52–54), and the remarkable verdict of Bacon (De Augmentis, bk. iii, ch. 4; Works, 1-vol. ed. 1905, p. 471; cp. Advancement of Learning, bk. ii, p. 96) as to the superiority of the natural philosophy of Demokritos over those of Plato and Aristotle. Bacon immediately qualifies his verdict; but he repeats it, as regards both Aristotle and Plato, in the Novum Organum, bk. i, aph. 96. See, however, Mr. Benn’s final eulogy of Plato as a thinker, i, 273, and Murray’s Anc. Greek Lit. pp. 311–13. [↑]
[286] Laws, x, 908; Jowett, v, 295. [↑]