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than Reason makes the primary difference between man and brute.
Professor Stewart's “ The Myths of Plato".
() "The critics will tell you that the use of this mode of instruction in ancient times was a consequence of the oral teaching then prevalent; that printing being unknown, and writing uncommon, it was necessary to strike deep into the mind at once the lesson which vanished on the lips; that so the prophets in the palace or the street, the seer in the desert, the man of God on the beach or hill-side, borrowed hints from the scene around, and painted sacred things in the individual and dramatic forms on the imagination of monarch or of multitude. But now that art has clipped the 'winged words ', and memory betakes itself to books, we are more elaborately and precisely taught by argument and precept; and human nature, emerging from its child. hood, exchanges its love of fable and similitude for moral and religious philosophy. I rather suspect a' different cause for the phenomenon in question; and doubt whether, even if Jesus of Nazareth were living among us now, amid all the advantages of cheap tracts and daily journals, he would teach us much otherwise than after the old fashion, not with the dead page and laboured disquisition, but with the living voice, and the artless parable. For, I take it, different conceptions of the work to be achieved lie at the root of his method and of ours: ours assuming that religion is to be put into the mind; his, that it is to be brought out of it; ours aiming to teach the truth by intellectual judgment; his, to inspire it by
