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the mind ; and the reality may be nearer 

 than any of us dare dream. If survived, a 

 terrible infection, such as confluent small- 

 pox, seems to benefit the general health. 

 Perhaps such an attack through which we 

 have passed may benefit the body cosmic. 

 After discussing the various forms of gov- 

 ernment, Plato concludes that " States are 

 as the men are, they grow out of human 

 characters," 1 and then, as the dream-re- 

 public approached completion, he realized 

 that after all the true State is within, of 

 which each one of us is the founder, and 

 patterned on an ideal the existence of which 

 matters not a whit. Is not the need of this 

 individual reconstruction the Greek mes- 

 sage to modern democracy? And with it 

 is blended the note of individual service to 

 the community on which Professor Gilbert 

 Murray has so wisely dwelt. 



With the hot blasts of hate still on our 



1 Republic^ Book vm. 



