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Updated: July 1, 2025
Such, Phaedrus and I speak not only to you, but to all of you were the words of Diotima; and I am persuaded of their truth.
They contain the conclusion of the story, ending, as does F of F B with Mathilda's words spoken to Diotima in the Elysian Fields: "I am here, not with my father, but listening to lessons of wisdom, which will one day bring me to him when we shall never part. THE END." Some passages are scored out, but not this final sentence. Tenses are changed from past to future.
'What do you mean, Diotima, I said, 'is love then evil and foul? 'Hush, she cried; 'must that be foul which is not fair? 'Certainly, I said. 'And is that which is not wise, ignorant? do you not see that there is a mean between wisdom and ignorance? 'And what may that be? I said.
"Such, Phaedrus and I speak not only to you, but to all of you were the words of Diotima; and I am persuaded of their truth. And being persuaded of them, I try to persuade others, that in the attainment of this end human nature will not easily find a helper better than Love.
The author is transported by the fairy Fantasia to the Elysian Fields, where she listens to the discourse of Diotima and meets Mathilda. Mathilda tells her story, which closes with her death.
I was astonished at her words, and said: 'Is this really true, O thou wise Diotima? And she answered with all the authority of an accomplished sophist: 'Of that, Socrates, you may be assured; think only of the ambition of men, and you will wonder at the senselessness of their ways, unless you consider how they are stirred by the love of an immortality of fame.
Perhaps the best way of expounding my reasons will be to follow the process by which I reached them; for so far from having started with the theory of Diotima, I found the theory of Diotima, when I re-read it accidentally after many years' forgetfulness, to bring to convergence the result of my gradual experience.
Socrates, when he departs from his character of a 'know nothing' and delivers a speech, generally pretends that what he is speaking is not his own composition. Thus in the Cratylus he is run away with; in the Phaedrus he has heard somebody say something is inspired by the genius loci; in the Symposium he derives his wisdom from Diotima of Mantinea, and the like.
Some of these themes are discussed by Woodville in Mathilda. The repetition may have been one reason why Mary discarded the framework. Mathilda did have such a friend, but, as she admits, she profited little from his teachings. After wandering through the alleys and woods adjacent to the gardens, the author came upon Diotima seated beside Mathilda.
For herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he has no desire for that of which he feels no want. 'But who then, Diotima, I said, 'are the lovers of wisdom, if they are neither the wise nor the foolish? 'A child may answer that question, she replied; 'they are those who are in a mean between the two; Love is one of them.
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