LESSON ELEVEN TEXT There have been many men who grew tired of human society and went away to live simply-on a small farm,in a quiet village,or in a hermit's cave. Not so Diogenes.He was a missionary.22)His life's aim was clear to him:it was "to restamp the currency."to take the clean metal of human life, to erase the old false conventional markings. and to imprint it with its true values.(23) The other great philosophers of the fourth century B.C.such as Plato and Aristotle taught mainly their own private pupils.But for Diogenes,laboratory and specimens and lecture halls and pupils were all to be found in a crowd There have been many men who grew tired of human society and went away to live simply ─on a small farm, in a quiet village, or in a hermit’s cave. Not so Diogenes. He was a missionary.(22) His life’s aim was clear to him: it was “to restamp the currency. ” : to take the clean metal of human life, to erase the old false conventional markings, and to imprint it with its true values. (23) The other great philosophers of the fourth century B.C. such as Plato and Aristotle taught mainly their own private pupils. But for Diogenes, laboratory and specimens and lecture halls and pupils were all to be found in a crowd LESSON ELEVEN TEXT