(Symposium.) Many illustrations of this part of the Republic may be found in modern Politics and in daily life.

For among ourselves, too, there have been two sorts of Politicians or Statesmen, whose eyesight has become disordered in two different ways.

First, there have been great men who, in the language of Burke, 'have been too much given to general maxims,' who, like J.S.Mill or Burke himself, have been theorists or philosophers before they were politicians, or who, having been students of history, have allowed some great historical parallel, such as the English Revolution of 1688, or possibly Athenian democracy or Roman Imperialism, to be the medium through which they viewed contemporary events.

Or perhaps the long projecting shadow of some existing institution may have darkened their vision.

The Church of the future, the Commonwealth of the future, the Society of the future, have so absorbed their minds, that they are unable to see in their true proportions the Politics of to-day.