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The singular expression which is employed to describe the age of

five-and-twenty may perhaps be taken from some poet.

In the delineation of the philosopher, the illustrations of the

nature of philosophy derived from love are more suited to the

apprehension of Glaucon, the Athenian man of pleasure, than to

modern tastes or feelings. They are partly facetious, but also

contain a germ of truth. That science is a whole, remains a true

principle of inductive as well as of metaphysical philosophy; and

the love of universal knowledge is still the characteristic of

the philosopher in modern as well as in ancient times.