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561 Schleiermacher on Plato's Apology. 561 ing, and contributes to the conformation and effect of the whole. Now if this would not have been the case in the pre- sent instance, why should Plato have brought it violently in? Especially as in all likelihood he wished to hasten the publi- cation of this speech as much as possible, and might not think it advisable at that time to hazard a public declaration of his sentiments on the issue of the cause, which, if he had clothed the speech in the form of a dialogue, it would have been diffi- cult to avoid, without rendering the form utterly empty and unmeaning. C. T.