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238 A. W. BENN : NOTE IN REPLY TO MB. A. E. TAYLOE. impression that there must be something wrong about a method which explains Plato by conceptions so entirely outside his ken as equations to curves. And this impression is strengthened when I think of Mr. Taylor's marvellous commentary on Zeno's argument rabout the o/xota /cat avofjioia. How sober poor Maguire seems in comparison ! Since Moliere's time were ever so many things got out of two words ! The proverbial relationship between mice and mountains seems in this instance to be reversed. Mr. Taylor would have been an excellent pupil for Cratylus, the Heracleitean who lectured in dumb show. He would have extracted far more from the movements of that sage's fingers than ever Puff got out of Lord Burleigh's shake of the head. ALFRED W. BENN.