enabled to go to Athens and attend the School of LITTLE 

 Oratory, of which Plato was dean. JOURNEYS 



The fine, receptive spirit of this slender youth evi- 

 dently brought out from Plato's heart the best that 

 was packed away there. Aristotle was soon the star 

 scholar. To get much out of school you have to take 

 much with you when you go there. In one particular, 

 especially, Aristotle the country boy from Macedonia 

 brought much to Plato and this was the scientific 

 spirit. Plato's bent was philosophy, poetry and rhet- 

 oric he was an artist in expression. 

 " Know thyself," said Socrates, the teacher of Plato. 

 Q" Be thyself," said Plato. 



" Know the world of Nature, of which you are a part," 

 said Aristotle, " and you will be yourself and know 

 yourself without thought or effort. The things you 

 see, you are." 



Plato and Aristotle were together for twenty-three 

 years, and when they separated it was on the relative 

 value of science and poetry. "Science is vital," said 

 Aristotle, "but poetry and rhetoric are incidental." 

 It was a little like the classic argument still carried on 

 in all publishing houses as to which is the greater, the 

 man who writes the text or the man who illustrates it. 

 QOne is almost tempted to think that Plato's finest 

 product was Aristotle, just as Sir Humphrey Davy's 

 greatest discovery was Michael Faraday. One fine, 

 earnest, receptive pupil is about all any teacher should 

 expect in a lifetime, but Plato had at least two, Aris- 

 totle and Theophrastus. And Theophrastus dated his 



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