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OF THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS ACCORDING TO PLATO. 



from. The meaning of this passage plainly is, that First Principles are those of which the 

 Reason takes hold in virtue of its power of reasoning ; — they are the conditions which must 

 exist in order to make any reasoning possible : — they are the propositions which the Reason 

 must involve implicitly, in order that we may reason explicitly ; — they are the intuitive roots of 

 the dialectical power. 



In accordance with the views now explained, Plato's Diagram may be thus further expanded. 

 The term iSea is not used in this part of the Republic ; but, as is well known, occurs in its 

 peculiar Platonic sense in the Tenth Book. 



Trinity Lodoe, May 22, 1855. 



