Excerpt from Mind, Vol. 12: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy Particular, and is the cause by its presence of the qualities of the particular. In the Republic, where the supreme Idea is said to be even beyond truth and existence, as Mr. Benn reminds us, it is also said, as he does not remind us, that the sun in the visible world is the offspring of the Good begotten in its own image, and the whole point Of the immediately following metaphor of the divided line is to insist on the thorough-going connexion, continuity, and analogy of existence and experience, from the lowest to the highest levels.1 It is surely an entire misreading of Plato's words when he is taken to mean only that the world of Ideas is not the world Of things, or that perception is not knowledge. The positive connexion is at least as real in his View as the unlikeness. It is not in Plato that we, can find any countenance for the Indian notion that the things Of sense are a mere illusory Show. Our first step to a true insight into his meaning must be to set on one side this false and misleading antithesis of the immanent and the transcendent, which seems to make as much havoc of some recent Platonic exegesis as it does of metaphysics, if allowed to get a foothold there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.