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Science and Politics in the Ancient World - Benjamin Farrington: Science and Politics in the Ancient World. Pp. 243. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1939. Cloth, 10s. 6d.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

W. K. C. Guthrie
Affiliation:
Peterhouse, Cambridge.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1940

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1 It is called class-war when Plato maintains that ‘the higher branches of mathematics are not for the general body even of the citizens, but for the few’ (p. 110). The practical difficulties of interesting the general body in higher mathematics are not discussed.