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Robert Nicol Cross: Born 2nd January 1883. Died 1970. Graduated Glasgow University 1904 with MA. - This amazing book, examines the life of Socrates and his teaching, and also details the world in which he lived, the Greece of the time experiencing a breakdown of authority in religion, morality and society. - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. - PREFACE : THE present study of Socrates and his mission has been done in the leisure gathered from other avocations, and was undertaken as the result of a profound personal reverence for Athens' saint and sage. It records the impression made on the writer by the ancient authorities. It has not been written for experts and scholars, but in order to tempt the average Englishman of culture to hold company for a little while with one of earth's most elect spirits and leaders. Accordingly discussion of disputed matters has been reduced to a minimum, though it could not be quite eliminated. The class of readers for whom the book is intended will also account for the introduction of material connected with life and ideas contemporary with Socrates, superfluous for the Greek student, but, one hopes, not uninteresting to the general reader, nor without relevance and use in giving him the needed background of light and shade in order to a just appreciation of the man's character and work. I only hope it will be the means of sending some to more authoritative and better sources, for to know Socrates is to love him and to reverence human nature. I have been helped by the various modern authorities to whom references are given, and have to thank Professors Phillimore and Latta of Glasgow University for initial guidance to the literature, and also Professor Taylor of St. Andrews for discussing one or two points with me. I am also obliged to Messrs. Macmillan & Co., and to the Clarendon Press, Oxford, for permission to quote from Dakyns' transation of Xenophon, and Jowett's translation of Plato, respectively. - R.N.C. [END OF PREFACE] - This book has a HAND-SIGNED DEDICATION TO THE FIRST BLANK ENDPAGE: 'From The Author, with every good wish, 1926'. - Condition & Description: Green cloth with blind tooling to front board. Faded gilt lettering to the spine. Fraying to spine margin at rear. Cloth faded in places to spine top and bottom. Light scuffing to corners. Browning and foxing throughout. Good quality paper. Few pencil and ink underscores and highlighting in book. Text never illegible. - Rare book hand-signed by author. - Thanks for your interest and I hope you like the book enough to buy it. - RAPID DISPATCH.
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