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Excerpt from The Christian Element in Plato and the Platonic Philosophy
Many conceptions, propositions, and intimations recur fre quently in the course of the examination I must request that this be not everywhere regarded and blamed as unnecessary repetition. To one who ascends a mountain, the view of the country spread out beneath him is presented more than once. To the cursory glance, the recurring landscape appears always the same, but the attentive observer recognises new forms and lights in it from each new point of observation.
The examination itself is of so high and genuine human interest, that 'i thought myself under obligation, to procure even for those who - are not by profession theologians or philosophers, the possibility of participating in it. Hence I have sought to preserve in the text a language intelligible to every educated person, and have put into 'the notes that which more particularly concerns the professional scholar.
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