Plato and Platonism - Walter Horatio Pater - Bog

Plato and Platonism is a philosophy essay by Walter Horatio Pater that states: "Plato has seemed to many to have been scarcely less than the creator of philosophy; and it is an immense advance he makes, from the crude or turbid beginnings of scientific enquiry with the Ionians or the Eleatics, to that wide range of perfectly finished philosophical literature."