llowed himself to be publicly
flattered by one of his students in the most fulsome manner for the
wonderful profundity of his wisdom, that could even add something to
the divine wisdom of Aristotle.

To tell a Greek idolater that the divine Plato thought it a great
MYSTERY that one and one should make two, that he declared it to be
incomprehensible to him, and thought the only possible solution of the
mystery to be, that two is produced "by _participation in duality_,"
would surprise him; but he would be still more surprised to learn that
this is only a specimen brick of Plato's divine philosophy, as it
abounds in similar puerilities. I have long since reviewed this effete
philosophy of an ignorant age, and shown its true character, but my
work has never been offered to a bookseller. Yet it shall not be
suppressed. The destruction of stultifying superstitions is as
necessary in education and literature as in religion. The ponderous
blows of Lord Bacon upon this Greek superstition of the literary
classes did not prove fatal, for the same reason that animal organisms
of a low, cold-blooded, grade are hard to kill,--they must be cut up
in fragments before their death becomes complete; superstitions and
beliefs that have no element of intelligent reason, and are
perpetuated by social influence, authority, and domination over the
young become a blind force that resists all influence from reason.

If my readers are interested in the destruction of venerable and
powerful falsehoods that stand in the way of every form of progress, I
may be tempted to publish a cheap edition of my work on Greek
Philosophy and Logic. It is not in the least presumptuous to lay hands
upon this venerable illusion, and show that it has not even the
vitality of a ghost. It is but a simulacrum or mirage, and it is but
necessary to approach it fearlessly, and walk through it, to discover
its essential nonentity.

SYMPOSIUMS deserves a good report. One of the philosophers, whose
doctrines were poetically paraphrased in the report of the scientific
responses upon human immortality, writes that he enjoyed the poetical
paraphrase very much, and never laughed over anything so heartily. It
would be pleasant to hear the real sentiments of the remainder. It
would be equally interesting to hear how Prof. Harris and the other
Concordians enjoy the little sketch of their symposium.

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