Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 95
GREEK PHILOSOPHY. His discourse continued until he was interrupted by. Crito from whose gestures he understood that he wanted to say something. He dismissed him and all that he wanted to say on behalf of the attendant who was to administer him the poison. The attendant had suggested that if he talked too much it would weaken the effect of the poison and he would be obliged to drink it two or three times. He showed scant respect with regards to the suggestion and the discomfort which his discourses could have caused him. 'Let him mind his business' answered Socrates 'and be prepared to give the poison two or three times. " ‘And now I will make answer to you, O my judges,' here he only refers as judges to those of his admirers who had gathered around him during his last moments · ‘and show that he who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world. '24. Thus he continued to teach the Divine philosophy to the people of Athens until he put the opiate to his lips. . Even as life was slowly ebbing out, as long as he had strength to speak, he continued to discharge his Divine commission never ceasing, before death silenced him at last. . Thus came to an end the life of one of the most glorious prophets of God who lived in the fifth century BC (a contemporary of Buddhaªs). Like Buddha, he never wrote his scriptures but they were recorded by his contemporaries and committed to writing later in the form of his. Dialogues. Buddha too was accused of atheism because he denied the gods of the Brahmans. . The greatest service he did to philosophy is summed up by Chambers Encyclopaedia in the following words: 95