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PREFACE.

THE following pages contain the substance of some articles on Plato, which were permitted by the kindness of the Editor of the British Critic to appear in that Review. pally to assist students in forming a right judgment on the general scope and object of the Platonic Dialogues; and the subject may be continued hereafter in some other form. But they are now republished at present with the same hope; and broken up into chapters for the greater convenience of the readers.

They were intended princi

Appended to them is another paper, which I have been kindly allowed to reprint from the Quarterly Review, containing some remarks on the rise of the new Platonism, which were thrown together, in per