Plato employed his powerful genius in working up a lofty spiritual reward, an ideal intoxication, for inciting men to the self-denying virtues.

He was the first and one of the greatest of preachers.

His theory of Justice is suited to preaching, and not to a scientific analysis of society.
V .-- The relation of Ethics to Politics is intimate, and even inseparable.

The Civil Magistrate, as in Hobbes, supplies the Ethical sanction.

All virtue is an affair of the state, a political institution.