PHILO-SOCRATES.

A SERIES of Papers, wherein subjects are investigated which, there is reason
to believe, would have interested Socrates, and in a manner that he would
not disapprove, were he among us now, gifted with the knowledge, and
familiar with the habits and doings, of our times.

BY WILLIAM ELLIS,

AUTHOR OF "RELIGION IN COMMON LIFE," "OUTLINES OF SOCIAL ECONOMY,"
ETC. ETC.

VOL. II. Among the Teachers.

LONDON:

SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL.

1864.

ON BELIEF, MISBELIEF, DISBELIEF, AND UNBELIEF.

228

ON THEOLOGICO-INTELLIGENCE

256

ON THEOLOGICO-MORALITY

278

PHILO-SOCRATES.

AMONG THE TEACHERS.

ON GOOD CHRISTIANS.

T. THEY tell us, Philo, that you are an enemy of religion; and that is why they dislike your teaching the boys.

P. And who are 66 they" who thus strive to injure me, and, I may say, the boys also, and seem to terrify you?

T. They do not terrify, but they vex and distress us, because we respect them, and we also like your teaching.

P. But who are they?

T. They are men who have devoted time and money to education-who are engaged in many charitable works; and we believe them to be truly good Christians.

P. I perceive they have done more than vex and distress you. They have led you to suspect, if they have not persuaded you, that I am doing mischief-that I am misleading the boys.

T. They have not, indeed, got so far as that.

P. Perhaps we do not understand one another. Did you