Still he maintains the true attitude of moral action.

Let a man do his duty first, without asking whether he will be happy or not, and happiness will be the inseparable accident which attends him.

'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.' Secondly, it may be remarked that Plato preserves the genuine character of Greek thought in beginning with the State and in going on to the individual.

First ethics, then politics--this is the order of ideas to us; the reverse is the order of history.

Only after many struggles of thought does the individual assert his right as a moral being.