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renders this dialogue most difficult for the modern student is that his mind like a Chinese lady's foot has been cramped since childhood in the cruel cell of nominalism until he is entirely unable to use it for the free thoughts of Plaot who lived before the Nominalist Realist controversy can be said to have fairly commenced. The modern student is astonished to find that Plato has to construct an elaborate argument to prove that language may be deceptive and still more so that fin that in order to prove this he resorts to ethical truth. Heraclitus was the presocratic Hegel. His attention is directed to Continuity. The whole world he says in ruled by the law of opposition and he accused of denying the principle of contradiction. But he insists very strenuously that while individuals [flow?] and are naught the [foreign text] which governs all abides. Hence reason alone and not sensation can give any true knowledge. These