Socrates' execution was not in vain. By his death, like another conscientious objector four hundred years later, he immortalized the idea which he served; and the legend of Socrates became the inspira- tion of all who believe in reason. But the man who first formulated the Socratic faith into a systematic philosophy was fundamentally different from his master. Just as Paul of Tarsus created an orthodox Christian theology strangely remote in spirit from that of Jesus, so Plato modified the Socratic ideal of philosophy into a new Platonic system. Plato and Paul were both converts to a faith, but each of them changed the faith of his master almost as much as he was changed by it. And so in the history both of Platonism and of Chris- tianity we find a strange tension between the ideals of the master and of the disciple; and at recurring intervals there is a movement to get behind the disciple's dogma to the real personality of the master. In the end loyalty to both is well-nigh impossible.
Consider for a moment these two men. Plato and Socrates. No two personalities could be more sharply opposed: Socrates, the hu- morous citizen of Periclean Athens, who knew and loved all sorts and conditions of men; Plato, the aristocrat, who shook the dust of
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