Man in the Light of Evolution 



are of great practical Importance, and we must 

 give them our careful attention. 



Socrates is being entertained at a banquet in 

 the house of Gorgias. The conversation turns 

 first on rhetoric, then on justice, and finally on 

 life. Callicles has exhorted Socrates to practice 

 the art of dealing with realities, and that which 

 shall gain him a reputation for common sense; 

 and to emulate, not the men who spend their 

 time in probing insignificant questions concerning 

 truth and justice, but rather those who possess 

 means and reputation and all the other good 

 things of life. He has assured Socrates that the 

 end of all his work will be sentence in the courts 

 and death by the vote of his fellow-citizens. One 

 after another Socrates silences all his opponents, 

 and ends the discussion with a statement of his 

 own belief. 



" So, bidding farewell to those things which 

 most men count honors, and looking onward to 

 the truth, I shall earnestly endeavor to grow as 

 far as may be In goodness and thus live, and 

 thus, when the time comes, die. . . . Beyond all 

 else a man must take heed not to seem but to be 

 good in public and private. . . . The best way 

 of life Is to practice justice and every other vir- 



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