Let me close this work with two quotations from Siriseloquent utterances of the Platonist temper It might very well be thought serious trifling to tell my readers, that the greatest men had ever a high esteem for Plato; whose writings are the touchstone of a hasty and shallow mind; whose philosophy has been the admiration of ages; which supplied patriots, magistrates, and law-givers, to the most flourishing states, as well as fathers to the Church, and doctors to the schools. Albeit in these days, the depths of that old learning are rarely fathomed, and yet it were happy for these lands, if our young nobility and gentry, instead of modern maxims, would imbibe the notions of the great men of antiquity. . . . It may be modestly presumed there are not many among us, even of those who are called the better sort, who have more sense, virtue, and love of their country than Cicero, who, in a letter to Atticus, could not forbear exclaiming, O Socrates et Socratici viri! nunquam vobis gratiam referam. Would to God many of our countrymen had the same obligations to those Socratic writers! Certainly where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learnt from the writings of Plato. . . . Proclus, in the first book of his commentary on the Theology of Plato, observes that, as in the mysteries, those who are initiated, at first meet with manifold and multiform gods, but being entered and thoroughly initiated, they receive the divine illumination, and participate in the very Deity; in like manner, if the Soul looks abroad, she beholds the shadows and images of things; but returning into herself she unravels and beholds her own essence: at first she seemeth only to behold herself, but having penetrated further she discovers the mind. And again, still further advancing into the innermost Sanctuary of the Soul she contemplates the ev yévos. And this, he saith, is the most excellent of all human acts, in the silence and repose of the faculties of the Soul to tend upwards to the very Divinity; to approach and be clearly joined with that which is ineffable and superior to all beings. When come so high as the first principle she ends her journey and rests.1 ... * Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the Human Mind, and the Summum Bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.2 INDEX Adam, Mr., on Plato's attitude to doctrine | Allegory of Castle of Medina, Spenser's, of Immortality of the Soul, 71 on circle of the Same and the Other, on the position of the Throne of on the astronomy of the Politicus 257 in Purgatorio, xxix., 257 of the Cave, Plato's, 250 ff. of the Disorderly Crew, Plato's, 253 ff, 'Aváμvnois, doctrine of, 343 ff. Ανάμνησις, ἔρως, φιλοσοφία, 341 1. compared with Dante's mythology of Adam Smith, Dr. G., on allegorical inter- Angels, Jewish doctrine of, and Greek pretation, 236, 237 Aeschylus, attitude of, to doctrine of Agyrtae, 70 doctrine of Daemons, 450 Apocalypse of Paul, Dr. M. R. James on, Apocalypse, the astronomical, 361 ff. Alonp, in Epinomis, de Coelo, Meteorol., Apuleius, his interpretation of the Ulysses 438, 439 Albertus, on the Earthly Paradise, 105 Allegorical interpretation, Dr. G. Adam Smith on, 236, 237 Dr. Bigg on, 236 of Myths, by Plotinus and Neo-Plato- St. Paul authorises, 237 of Myths, Plato's judgment on, 20, 242 Allegorical tales deliberately made, 16 by the Stoics, 233, 234 by Stoics, Cicero on, 233 Allegorisation of Old Testament, Philo's, by Christian Fathers, 236, 237 Myth, 241, 242 demonology of, 445 ff. Aquinas, St. Thomas, on the Earthly Archer-Hind, Mr., his Timaeus quoted, Aristippus, Henricus, translated Phaedo Aristotle, misapprehends the Timaeus, 269 poetised astronomy, 163, 164 his poetised astronomy, influence of, his supposed tomb near Chalcis, 153 gives up ideas of a Personal God and Aristotelian astronomy, 354 Atlantis Myth and maritime discovery, Axiochus, the, date and characteristics of, places the world of the departed in the singular in its localisation of the Tedior Bacon, his allegorical interpretation of his definition of Poetry, 387 Bernard, his translation of Kant's Kritik d. Urtheilskraft quoted, 222 ff. on allegorical interpretation, 236 354 Book of the Dead, 130 66 ex- Bosanquet, Prof. B., on "present" as Brownell, C. L., quoted for Japanese Buddhism, attitude of, to belief in Im- Budge, Dr., on Book of the Dead, 66 on a prehistoric form of burial in Bunbury, on the geography of the Atlantis Callaway, on one-legged people; cf. Myth Cambridge Platonists, their learning, influenced in two directions, by Philo their enthusiasm for the new astronomy, their science, 486 ff. their central doctrine, the Doctrine of go back to Plato the mythologist rather their discussion of the relation of God's their doctrine of Categorical Imperative, enable us to connect the "formalism" ology of the Phaedrus and Sym- Campbell, Prof., on Protagoras Myth, Carus, his Gesch. d. Zoologie referred to, 17 the Peripatetics, 196 Kant's doctrine of, criticised by Categories of the Understanding and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, an allegory Categories of the Understanding, mytho and also a myth, 16, 246 Burnet, Prof., on the opórovλo of the Poetry and Fine Art referred to, 391 Caird, Dr. E., on Kant's Ideas of Reason, Callaway, Nursery Tales of the Zulus, logical deduction of, 337 ff. Place explained as, 339 ff, Schwanitz on, 252 his version of the Timaeus, how far Charles, Prof. R. H., his editions of Choice of Hercules, 2, 245 Church, Dean, on The Letter to Kan Grande, 18 Cicero, eschatology of his Somnium Scipionis and Tusc. Disp., 353 Claudian, on the Earthly Paradise, 105 Coelo, de, influence of, in the Paradiso, Coleridge, on "poetic faith," 6 on deep sky akin to feeling, 22 on Plato's doctrine of the pre-existence Daemon, Guardian, doctrine of, connected on Wordsworth's Ode on Intimations Daemon, the, of Socrates, 445, 448; cf. of Immortality, 61 his Anima Poetae quoted, 258 on Dante's Canzone xx., 258 2, 3 Daemons, doctrine of, 434 ff. two kinds of, recognised by Plato, 436 ff. regards the Platonic doctrine of Pre- Dante, Letter to Kan Grande, quoted for existence as mythical, 344 holds that Poetry may exist without Comparetti, on gold tablets of Thurii and Petelia, 130, 156 on the Kalewala, 204 necting principle between creature Guardian Daemon as, 447, 448 templativa, referred to, 234 Cook, Mr. A. B., on the Sicilian triskeles, and the Myth told by Aristophanes Cornford, Mr. F. M., on the púλakes of the Republic and the Hesiodic Courthope, Mr., his definition of Poetry Couturat, on doctrine of Immortality of holds that the whole doctrine of lôéai Cratylus, the, on the Philosopher Death, on the Sirens, 128 Creuzer, Plotinus de Pulchritudine, quoted, Cudworth, his criticism of Descartes com- Hell, Mount of Purgatory, and Earthly Quaestio de Aqua et Terra, 102 singular in locating Purgatory on the Mount of Purgatory sighted by Ulysses, his use of the teleological geography of his mythological explanation of the the three parts of his D. C. correspond Lethe and Eunoè, 154 ff. |