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Plutarch and the Greece of His Age biographies. In the nature of the case their value ag truthful records is greatly impaired by the stand point from which they were written; but it is this fact that has given them an attractiveness and a rency cur such as no other works of their kind have equalled. Plutarch s Lives have for centuries been the monitors of youth and the solace of the aged. have been read and admired wherever men have They honored courage, fortitude, intrepidity, self-control, patriotism, humaneness in short, every character that can be classed among Greeks and Romans, ancients and moderns, trait of the virtues. learned and illiterate, rich and poor, have been fascinated by them, and it is on them that their author s fame chiefly rests. To many persons, in fact to the great majority of readers, Plutarch is known only as the writer of charming biographies; yet these constitute a good deal less than half his extant works. Plutarch holds that men find the patli of virtue and continue to walk in it, by reflection, deliberation, introspection; by a systematic, rigid and continued self-examination in other words, by a practical ap plication of the methods that philosophy points out. Man is sane and sound only so long as he puts into practice the principles of virtue. So long the slave of his passions he is in need of as he is a physician. Philosophy is the sanitation of the soul; the genuine philosopher is the real physician of the soul. In pursuance of his chosen vocation, Plutarch wrote a number of essays for the purpose of giving instruction
Plutarch and the Greece of His Age upon the best methods of controlling the different passions to which men are subject. Their purport at their titles. easily becomes evident from a glance They show that he has carefully observed and studied men, at least those that constitute the various higher classes and give the prevailing tone to society. Many of these essays are still of interest and well repay perusal. They contain many acute observations and piquant remarks. For Plutarch the old mythology is sufficient as a basis for a religious belief. Like most of the Greek philosophers who incline toward theism, he main tains that myths are, to a greater or less extent, cor ruptions of primitive verities. These originated in the popular mind and received artistic form at the hands of the poets. Underlying them all there is truth enough and beauty enough to show the aspira tion of the soul after higher things, and they form the basis of a purely theistic belief. Plutarch s un bounded faith in human reason leads him to believe that it alone is entirely sufficient to enable any and every man to lead a virtuous life. His advice to every one is, in substance: get all the light you can; use the reason you are endowed with by the creator; acquire additional knowledge and wisdom every day; make your inward life an object of daily study and reflection, if you do these things you will lead a vir tuous life. Those persons who have no love for the beautiful and the good, no desire to become virtuous, fail because they neglect to cultivate the reason 183 with
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