Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did write it. Yet there existed beyond the Atlantic an unvisited land, after all, and it is more strange...

The answer of Solon on the question, ‘Which is the most perfect popular govemment,’ has never been exceeded by any man since his time, as containing a maxim of political morality, ‘That,’ says he, ‘where...