Logic IV. 67
does not determine its parts but is determined by them. And again a harmony admits of degrees while no one sould is more a soul than another. It striked me that if both statements were reversed the argument would be stronger. Nor is there anything in harmony analogous to virtue and vice. Finally a harmony can never be at variance with the state of the instrument but the sould may oppose the inclinations of the body.
It does not seem unlikely that some such talk about harmony may have taken place and the trait about stroking the head of Phaedo sounds Socratic. But what a strange is that dialogue! How could the refined Plate date to mingle with the picture of the dying hours of a man destined to be revered by all future generations so much matter of his own recent invention quite contrary to his master's state of mind? What defective sense of truth! What wants of delicacy! How
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