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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: 'The power and faculty of loving the truth, and of doing all things for the
sake of the truth': or, again, the singular acknowledgment which may be
regarded as the anticipation of a new logic, that 'In going to war for mind
I must have weapons of a different make from those which I used before,
although some of the old ones may do again.' Let us pause awhile to
reflect on a sentence which is full of meaning to reformers of religion or
to the original thinker of all ages: 'Shall we then agree with them of old
time, and merely reassert the notions of others without risk to ourselves;
or shall we venture also to share in the risk and bear the reproach which
will await us': i.e. if we assert mind to be the author of nature. Let us
note the remarkable words, 'That in the divine nature of Zeus there is the
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