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satisfactory; merely bolstering up hypothesis by hypothesis. Precisely how enemies of Aristotle were led to antedate his birth we really cannot say. But the fact that Aristotle of the Parmenides is younger than the "very young" Socrates seems absolutely [to?] negative the hypothesis that Plato never saw the real Aristotle before the latter's thirty-first year.

We are to suppose then that Aristotle had at the age of seventeed sold out the valuable pharmacy, which the rogue physician, his father, had bequethed him, and had betaken himself to Athens 368 B.C. to study under Plato. So warm were his feelings that he signalized his [adrent?] by a rather indecent ridicule of [Socates?] who had not sufficient respect for Socrates. He had therefore heard of Plato, and mus thave heard of the theory of ideas. There is no reason to doubt that he would at that age at once