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The main purpose which I have had in view in writing this book has beento present an account of Greek philosophy which, within strict limitsof brevity, shall be at once authentic and interesting--_authentic_, asbeing based on the original works themselves, and not on any secondarysources; _interesting_, as presenting to the ordinary English reader,in language freed as far as possible from technicality andabstruseness, the great thoughts of the greatest men of antiquity onquestions of permanent significance and value. There has been noattempt to shirk the really philosophic problems which these men triedin their day to solve; but I have endeavoured to show, by a sympathetictreatment of them, that these problems were no mere wars of words, butthat in fact the philosophers of twenty-four centuries ago were dealingwith exactly similar difficulties as to the bases of belief and ofright action as, under different forms, beset thoughtful men and womento-day.In the general treatment of the subject, I have followed in the mainthe order, and drawn chiefly on the selection of passages, in Ritterand Preller's _Historia Philosophiae Graecae_. It is hoped that inthis way the little book may be found useful at the universities, as arunning commentary on that excellent work; and the better to aidstudents in the use of it for that purpose, the corresponding sectionsin Ritter and Preller are indicated by the figures in the margin.In the sections on Plato, and occasionally elsewhere, I have drawn tosome extent, by the kind permission of the Delegates of the ClarendonPress and his own, on Professor Jowett's great commentary andtranslation.

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