Young men, as a rule, like a leader who has some distinct aim, good or bad, and if Jowett were to be judged by that test one would say that no one of his time was less qualified to be a leader. To a distinct view of the importance of some solution he seems to have joined the profound conviction that no conceivable solution would hold water. He stood, says one of his pupils, in a rather different sense, at the parting of many ways, and he wrote, one must add, No thoroughfare upon them all.
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Benjamin Jowett was a 19th-century English writer and classical scholar. Benjamin Jowett was an English writer and classical scholar. Additionally, he was an administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, theologian, Anglican cleric, and translator of Plato and Thucydides. Read more on Wikipedia →