Plato was 40 years old (388 B.C.), as he tells us in his “Seventh Letter.” The Peloponnesian War had ended in 404. The Greek colony of Syracuse on Sicily was in the ascendancy. Along with Sparta, ...

AMONG the papers of the late George Ripley is the following list of names under the head of “ Transcendentalism,” plainly intended to convey his notion of the phases through which idealism in New ...