276 MEANING AND HISTORY OF THE LOGOS OF PHILOSOPHY. 
That the teaching of Anaxagoras had an ethical value I would 
not be understood to deny, nor do I doubt that in the words and 
actions of religiously disposed disciples it bore wholesome fruit. But 
I still hold it probable that the immediate product of his specula- 
tions would have been an intellectual system more truly philo- 
sophical and more extensively fruitful than he succeeded in 
elaborating, if his theistic conception had been determined by a 
deeper insight into ethical necessity than we are warranted in 
ascribing to him. 
The writings of Plato not only give evidence of mental qualifica- 
tions, both dialectical and literary, of a very superior order, but 
also, as it seems to me, bear witness to the introduction of an 
improved method of investigating the fundamental truth. His 
intellect, indeed, even thus aided, was doubtless hindered by an 
impenetrable veil from finding entrance into the Holy of Holies and 
beholding face to face the glory which is there revealed. It was 
given to him virtually to foretell what would befall the ideally 
Righteous Man, were He to appear; how, after suffering all kinds 
of outrages, He would be crucified.* But Plato comes far short of 
conceiving adequately either the character of such a man or the 
significance of his manifestation. 
Among the Stoics were men who, with unquestionably honest 
purpose and nobly persistent courage, sought to realise the ideal in 
their own persons ; but their conception of it was incompatible with 
that unselfconscious spirit of trustfulness in which souls, when 
quickened from above, wake up from the death of sin to the life of 
righteousness, and thankfully discover that their sins are forgiven. 
The righteousness aimed at by those dimly-enlightened votaries of 
wisdom was essentially inhuman; for the cost of acquiring apathy 
must needs be the extinction of sympathy. But this was not easily 
perceived when the choice appeared to lie between apathy and 
despair. Given a world in which to live is to suffer: how is its 
existence to be accounted for on the supposition that death ends 
all? To deal with this repulsive problem the Stoics resolutely 
braced their minds, and their Logos was the outcome of a desperate 
attempt to solve it. But the advent of the true Logos is the revela- 
tion of an eternal plan for opening up beyond the seeming final 
limit an endless life, and for making all things new. 
* * Repub., b, il. ch. 5, 
