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tions, distraction by personal rivalries, fixed atten 

 tion upon the elements of character, and upon con 

 sideration of the effect of individual character on 

 social vitality and stability. Happy exemption 

 from ecclesiastic preoccupations, susceptibility to 

 natural harmony, and natural piety conspired with 



j( frank and open observation to acknowledgment of 

 the role played by natural conditions. Social in 

 stability and shock made equally pertinent and ob 

 vious the remark that only intelligence can confirm 

 the values that natural conditions generate, and 

 that intelligence is itself nurtured and matured 

 only in a free and stable society. 



In Plato the , resultant analysis of the mutual 

 implications of the individual, the sorcial and the 

 natural, converged in the ideas that morals and 



- philosophy are one : namely, a love of that wisdom 

 which is the source of secure and social good ; that 

 mathematics and the natural sciences focused upon 



^the problem of the perception of the good furnish 

 the materials of moral science; that logic is the 

 method of the pregnant organization of social con- 



~ ditions with respect to good ; that politics and psy 

 chology are sciences of one and the same human 

 nature, taken first in the large and then in the 

 little. So far that large and expansive vision of 

 Plato. 



But projection of a better life must be based 

 upon reflection of the life already lived. The in- 



