Mrs. Eddy Mentioned Them May 11, 1957 Issue

Plato, cir. 427-347 B.C.

[Mentioned in Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 111, 361; Retrospection and Introspection, p. 57; No and Yes, p. 21: Christian Healing, p. 8]

Plato, the aristocratic Athenian philosopher, was born on the island of Aegina. Before he was twenty, he had written an epic poem, which, however, he burned after reading Homer. By birth and education, Plato was fitted for a political career, but the revolutions and injustices of his time discouraged him.

Attracted by Socrates' reasoning, Plato became his devoted disciple; and when Socrates was brought to trial, Plato sought to plead his case. To Plato, we owe the record of Socrates' own defense.

After Socrates' death, Plato began his travels, investigating the Pythagorean system of philosophy in Ionia, studying mathematics in Cyrene and probably astronomy and mathematics in Egypt, where he traveled in the guise of a merchant and a seller of oils. Besides all this he made a survey of Sicily. Upon his return to Athens, he established his own school in the academy and had inscribed over the garden gate. "Let no one unacquainted with geometry, enter here." Aristotle and Demosthenes were among his pupils.

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