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Johnson of any acquaintance with his writings. He probably would

have refuted Plato without reading him, in the same fashion in

which he supposed himself to have refuted Bishop Berkeley's

theory of the non-existence of matter. If we except the so-called

English Platonists, or rather Neo-Platonists, who never

understood their master, and the writings of Coleridge, who was

to some extent a kindred spirit, Plato has left no permanent

impression on English literature.