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THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY.417proper persons. You mean the living and animatedword of one who has knowledge, whereofthe written word may justly be called the shadow.71I mean that indeed. Tell me now ; an intelligentgardener, who had seeds that he cared for, andwished to bear fruit, would he hurry with themin summer to the gardens of Adonis, plant them,and rejoice to see them springing up with a fair,h k? or w Id th amusement,and in festival-time, if he did it at all, butwhen he took pains would use his erardener's art,sow them at the fitting time, and be too glad if,seven months afterwards, he saw them coming toperfection? Certainly, Socrates, that would bethe difference between his sport and his earnest.Shall we, then, say that he who possesses thescience of justice, honour, and goodness, has lessintelligence than the gardener for his own seeds ?Surely not. He will not, then, hurry to writethem with a pen in ink with words, which cannoton the one hand help themselves with speech, andon the other hand are incapable j. to teach the truthsufficiently. should think he would not. Hewill not ; but as for these written flower-borders ,he will sow and write them, when he does writethem, for amusement, , storing;- up reminders forhimself,'should he come to a forgetfulOold age,O *andfor every one who pursues the same footsteps, and71 rbv rov ¬l^6ros \6yov AtytLSav n \4yotToii.vXoyi °v o ytypaftfAevos et5a>\uvEE