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T will be interesting and useful briefly to trace the growth of the ethical tendency in Greek Philosophy, not only as a preparation for the study of Plutarch's position as an ethical and religious teacher, but also because the prominence of this tendency in the pre-Socratic systems appears to have been greatly under-*estimated. It has been found so easy, for purposes of historical narrative, to describe a certain philosophical