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410 THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ANDpersonal God. In fact, it is admitted that he fails-together with all the ancient Greek writers-inthe strict conception of personality.60 As accordingto him individual beings are what they areonly by participation of something higher, it is nowonder that in describing that one Reason, theIdea of the Good, the highest and most general ofall, which forms and governs the world, his languageoscillates between the personal and the impersonal.But if his philosophical reasons tendone way, it must be allowed that the heart andaffections of the man, and the whole moral senseof the teacher, decide another.The ethical system of Plato appears to be astrict deduction from his physical. As man in hisview is a compound of matter, vivified by a portionof the world-soul, which the divine reasontakes and unites with a portion of itself, so hisvirtues correspond to this threefold composition. GlFor man has an immortal portion in his soul, thereason, the godlike, in him, but the divine reason,in joining a portion of the world-soul with matter,invests it with two mortal parts, one the courageous,or manly, the other, sensuous desire, or thefemale element, having their seat in the body'sWie es sich aber in dieser Beziehung mit der Personlichkeit ver-immvorgelegt hat, wie ja dem Alterthumder Personlichkeit fehlt, und die Vernunft nicht selten als allgemni und. Unv>ersonlicnemsicher echAvankenden "VVeise gedacht wird." Zeller^ p. 454.61 Dollioger, p. 286, sec. 103. Zeller, vol. ii. part 1, p. 538.