Notes a dog philosophy.(Literature)

Quadrant | May 1, 2007| | Copyright

RABELAIS REMINDS US, in his prologue to Gargantua, that Plato calls the dog, in the second book of The Republic, the most philosophical creature. Dogs love to gnaw bones, the cortex of which must be broken open to allow them to savour the perfect nourishment of the marrow--la substantifique moelle. As Sir Thomas Urquhart puts it, in his Scots English translation of 1653: 

 
   In imitation of this Dog, it becomes you to be wise, 
   to smell, feele and have in estimation these faire 
   goodly books, stuffed with high conceptions, which 
   though seemingly easie in the ...

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