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Excerpt from The Republic of Plato, Translated Into English: Translated Into English, With an Analysis, and Notes
There are however certain Letters professing to be Plato's, which give much information as to his acts and his motives, especially with reference to the actively political portions of his career. These Letters have of late years been generally believed to be spurious, the most important of them being supposed to be written by disciples of Plato and to contain more or less that is true. But Mr Grote contends strenuously for the genuineness of these, as well as of other writings, included in the traditional canon or list of Plato's works, which modern critics have rejected as spurious. Mr Grote, in his zeal to take Plato down from his superhuman pedestal, may be somewhat too ready to attribute to him the compositions which have been judged unworthy of so divine a philosopher; but his masterly disciission will certainly re0pen the question, and probably persuade many to adopt his conclusion. There would then be less hesitation in adding the interesting particulars contained in the Epistles to what we other wise know of Plato's life; whilst the more sceptical critics, as has been said, are already willing to admit that those particulars may in great part be authentic.
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