The world: historical and actual . saith theLord of his peoplethe missing link inPhilosophy. lie wasborn a few years be-fore Christ. It wasnot long beforeNeoplatonism and Christianity were jostled againsteach other, both eager to turn to advantagethe confession of philosophy that it could not solvethe mystery of truth. Plotinus is the great namein this conflict. In the Gospel of John with itsdeification of the Word, may be seen the influenceof Neoplatonism upon the church, especially inthe doctrine of the Trinity. The last of the Neo-platonists, Proelus, was born A. D. 413. He showedthe power
The world: historical and actual . saith theLord of his peoplethe missing link inPhilosophy. lie wasborn a few years be-fore Christ. It wasnot long beforeNeoplatonism and Christianity were jostled againsteach other, both eager to turn to advantagethe confession of philosophy that it could not solvethe mystery of truth. Plotinus is the great namein this conflict. In the Gospel of John with itsdeification of the Word, may be seen the influenceof Neoplatonism upon the church, especially inthe doctrine of the Trinity. The last of the Neo-platonists, Proelus, was born A. D. 413. He showedthe power of Christianity more than Protinus tried to save philosophy by liberal concessions ;but to no purpose. It was doomed, and with hisdeatli was buried, ceasing to be a real power in theworld, until Bacon gave it a scientific tendency. It was, then, the province of the Greeks to showthat philosophy cannot produce satisfactory resultsupon any other than a scientific basis. It triedevery conceivable theory, and whatever the dis-. tinctive idea, and alike witli and without religion,it fell short of producing intellectual content, andits grand glory is the claim it may justly lay to thehigh honor of having stimulated inquiry. The Greeks were no less prominent in art thanin philosophy. They excelled equally in painting,sculpture and architecture. From the nature of thecase the works of the painters have perished. Apelles,whose portraits were the admiration of his country-men, was a cotemporary of Alexander, whose por-trait he painted. Nothing remains to testify, firsthand, to the merit of Greek art with the brush andeasel. But what Greek genius wrought in stone hasnot wholly disappeared. Praxiteles, who flourished at Atheus late in the fourth century be-fore Christ, has beencalled the head ofthe Attic school. Heworked in marbleand bronze both,chiefly in the for-mer. His subjectswere , Cupid andApollo were favoritesubjects with has been calledthe sculptor
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