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78) where he contemplates the growth of the Athenian empire-'How

brave a thing is freedom of speech, which has made the Athenians

so far exceed every other state of Hellas in greatness!' or, more

probably, attributing the victory to the ancient good order of

Athens and to the favor of Apollo and Athene (cp. Introd. to

Critias).

Again, Plato may be regarded as the 'captain' ('arhchegoz') or

leader of a goodly band of followers; for in the Republic is to

be found the original of Cicero's De Republica, of St.

Augustine's City of God, of the Utopia of Sir Thomas More, and of

the numerous other imaginary States which are framed upon the

same model. The extent to which Aristotle or the Aristotelian

school were indebted to him in the Politics has been little

recognised, and the recognition is the more necessary because it

is not made by Aristotle himself. The two philosophers had more

in common than they were conscious of; and probably some elements

of Plato remain still undetected in Aristotle. In English

philosophy too, many affinities may be traced, not only in the

works of the Cambridge Platonists, but in great original writers

like Berkeley or Coleridge, to Plato and his ideas.