Carlyle on Plato

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Carlyle on Plato Anonymous Sat Dec 11 06:55:09 2021 No.19551432 [Reply] [Original]

October, 1872.
>Carlyle said, 'Plato has not been of much use to me; a high, refined man: "Odi profanum vulgus."
>'Socrates—I didn't get much benefit from _him_.'
>Allingham—'His Discourse before his Death?'
>C.—'Well, in such a case I should have made no discourse; should have wished to be left alone, to profound reflections.'

Wednesday, January 26, 1876.
>Froude comes in.
>F.—'Jowett's Plato, a bald, tame, prosaic translation.'
>C.—'Plato's style is admirable, but he has nothing particular to tell you.'
>A.—'One wonders how much is Socrates.'
>C.—'Socrates one suspects to be a myth mainly. I could get nothing out of Plato! What do you mean then?—the devil a word!'
>F.—'You would have liked to meet him?'
>C.—'O yes, I daresay I should have found him highly interesting in himself.'

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