[81] Archer-Hind: The Phædo of Plato, Appendix I.
[82] Cf. Martineau: “Types of Ethical Theory”: Plato, p. 97, vol. i.—“For the soul in its own essence, and for great and good souls among mankind, Plato certainly had the deepest reverence; but he had no share in the religious sentiment of democracy which dignifies man as man, and regards with indifference the highest personal qualities in comparison with the essential attributes of common humanity.—He rated so high the difficulty of attaining genuine insight and goodness that he thought it much if they could be realized even in a few; and had no hope that the mass of men, overborne by the pressure of material necessity and unchastened desires, could be brought, under the actual conditions of this world, to more than the mere beginnings of wisdom.”
[83] Aristotle: Ethics, i. cap. 3. Cf. i. 6 and i. 8.
[84] Ethics, i. 3, 4, where also the verse from the Works and Days is quoted; cf. sec. 6.
[85] Ethics, i. 8.
[86] Grant’s Aristotle, vol. i. p. 155.
[87] See Ritter and Preller, sec. 392, for the authorities on this head.
[88] A Voice from the Nile, by James Thomson. An Epicurean would have heartily responded to the verse following those quoted in the text from this fine poem—“And therefore Gods and Demons, Heaven and Hell.”
[89] Diogenes Laertius (Ritter and Preller, 380. Cf. Cic.: De Finibus, i. 7).
[90] Cf. Pseudo-Plutarch: De Placitis Philosophorum. 877 D.