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to employ their respective arts?Alcibiades
A paltry one, I should call it, Socrates.Socrates
Yes, you would, I expect, when you saw each one of them vying with the other and assigning the largest part in the conduct of the state to that“Wherein himself is found most excellent,
”Eur. Antiope, Fr.1 I mean, what is done best by rule of his particular art—while he is entirely off the track of what is best for the state and for himself, because, I conceive, he has put his trust in opinion apart from intelligence. In these circumstances,
A paltry one, I should call it, Socrates.Socrates
Yes, you would, I expect, when you saw each one of them vying with the other and assigning the largest part in the conduct of the state to that“Wherein himself is found most excellent,
”Eur. Antiope, Fr.1 I mean, what is done best by rule of his particular art—while he is entirely off the track of what is best for the state and for himself, because, I conceive, he has put his trust in opinion apart from intelligence. In these circumstances,
