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Rh ancients themselves and two or three other plausible inventions, can be fairly doubted by those who are willing to allow that a considerable change and growth may have taken place in his philosophy (see above). That twentieth debatable portion scarcely in any degree affects our judgment of Plato, cither as a thinker or a writer, and though suggesting some interesting questions to the scholar and critic, is of little importance to the general reader.