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Abstract Socrates is the hero who established in the place of the Delphic oracle the principle that man must look within himself to know what is Truth. Now, seeing that Pythia herself pronounced that utterance, we find in it a complete revolution in the Greek mind, and the fact that in the place of the oracle, the personal self-consciousness of every thinking man has come into play. This inward certainty, however, is undoubtedly another new god, and not the god of the Athenians existing hitherto, and thus the accusation of Socrates was quite just.
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