Note 20 — MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
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This thought is taken from a passage on astronomy in Plato’s Republic, in which the following sentence occurs, vii. 529, D: ‘We must use the fretwork of the sky as patterns, with a view to the study which aims at these higher realities, just as if we chanced to meet with diagrams cunningly drawn and devised by Dædalus or some other craftsman or painter.’