In the meantime, I can bear in mind that if at times the excellence of Plato's philosophy has been held to He in his scientifically valueless myths, there have also been times, even called times of ecstatic dreaming, when Aristotle's philosophy was esteemed for its speculative depth, and Plato's Parmenides (surely the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic) was regarded as the true disclosure and positive expl'ession of the divine life, and times when, despite the obscurity generated by ecstasy, this misunderstood ecstasy was in fact supposed to be nothing else than the pure Notion.