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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: that he related to me; but I will tell you what I thought most worthy of
remembrance, and what the chief speakers said.
Phaedrus began by affirming that Love is a mighty god, and wonderful among
gods and men, but especially wonderful in his birth. For he is the eldest
of the gods, which is an honour to him; and a proof of his claim to this
honour is, that of his parents there is no memorial; neither poet nor
prose-writer has ever affirmed that he had any. As Hesiod says:--
'First Chaos came, and then broad-bosomed Earth,
The everlasting seat of all that is,
And Love.'
In other words, after Chaos, the Earth and Love, these two, came into
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