ABSTRACT
Consider, for instance, the case of Plato himself. Before his time Greek science had made rapid strides. Relativism and healthy skepticism were developing, men were being freed from bondage to authority in thinking about nature and were pushing on to that fearless observation of experience and that analysis of natural processes which centuries later-the delay being in part due to Plato-was to produce what we call modern science. Plato, in his youth, was taught and was greatly impressed by the views of the earlier scientific-minded Greek thinkers. From their teachings he became acquainted with doctrines which would now sound modern, for the atomic theory, relativity and pragmatism then had their beginnings.
