He did not deny the Gods, but he certainly transformed them, and indeed had to do so.

This fact was so well known that his enemie3 could get him arraigned before the Athenian dicastery and condemned to death, chiefly on the ground of impiety.

This last act is the most impressive and mem- orable one in his whole career, enrolling him among the martyrs of the race for the highest good of the race.

And yet there are two sides to the question of the justification of his death.

The real interest of it lies in the fact that over Socrates two world-views, the outgoing and the incoming, collided sharply, and thus gave a most striking manifestation of their existence.