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Logic IV. 68
are we to know but the true story would have been discreditable to Socrates since it never was told? What! Did nothing happen that Simmias or Cebes or Phaedo or Crito or any of that company could conveniently report? The apology itself informs us that Socrates has no very confident opinion about a future life. It is uncertain that he could not have used the main argument of this dialogue since it is based on Plato's quite recently evolved notions. And then I cannot help thinking that the man who had such a conscientous regards for this duties to the state as Socrates always displayed would at all times have bethought him of his duties to his family. It was not he but Plato who was renowned as a misogynist. I can harldly believe that Socrates was of the stamp of man who is always at the club never at home. At any rate on this his last day I should think it must

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