Sleep Story 206 – The Republic of Plato
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The Imperfection of Structure in the Age of Plato
There is no absurdity in supposing that he may have laid his labours aside for a time, or turned from one work to another. And such interruptions would be more likely to occur in the case of a long than a short writing. But on the other hand, the seeming discrepancies of the republic may only rise out of the discordant elements which the philosopher has attempted to uni in a single whole. For there is a judgment of after ages which few great writers have ever been able to anticipate for themselves. They do not perceive the want of connection in their own writings, or the gaps in their systems. In the beginnings of literature and philosophy, amid the first efforts of thought and
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