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    tricky , ignoble , and illiberal practice , which deceives by Artificial colour and srhoothness and figure and dress ; and , by giving factitious beauty , produces neglect of our own natural beauty , which is the result of gymnastics . Not to be lengthy , I will say to you in geometrical language , that , as Cookery is to Medicine , so is Cosmetics to Gymnastics *

    or , rather , as Cosmetics to G ymnastics , so is the pursuit of the sophist to the art of Legislation ; and , as Cookery to Medicine , so is Rhetoric to the art of Judicature . These distinctions , at any rate , are real ; although their pursuits , being nearly allied , are not unfrequently blended together , and it is not possible always to distinguish accurately which of them is practised by any particular individual .

    ¦ ' Now , if the body were not governed by the mind , but * governed itself ; if Cookery and Medicine were not surveyed and discriminated by the mind , but were to be judged by the body , taking its own gratification for the standard ; no doubt the things which conduce to health , and those which conduce to the palate , the things which belong to Medicine , and those which belong to Cookery , would be all confounded together . You now therefore know what I assert Rhetoric to be : The counterpart of Cookery . Rhetoric is to the mind what Cookery is to the body .

    * Perhaps , now , I have acted unaccountably , inasmuch as I would not let you make a long speech , and I have made one myself . But you ought to excuse me , for when I spoke concisely you did not understand me , nor could make any use of my answer : you needed along dissertation . If , then , you find that I cannot understand , or make use of your answers , do you also prolong your discourse ; but * if I can , permit me to do so , for that is but just . And now , if you can make any thing of my present answer , do so . ' 1

    4 What Iasked Polus , 'Do you affirm rhetoric to be Adulation ?' S . 4 I said , a branch of Adulation . ' P . Do good orators appear to you to be of mean account in a state , as being * adulators ? ' S . ' Do you mean this as a question , or is it the beginning of a speech V P . ' As a question . ' S . l They do not seem to me to be of any account at all . ' P . 4 How , of no account ? Are they not the most powerful perBons in a state V S . ' Not if you mean that to be powerful is a good thing for the powerful person . ' P . But I do . S . ' Then orators appear to me to be less powerful in

    a state than any other persons whatever . P . * What ! Do they not , like despots , put to death whomsoever they desire , and deprive of his property and expel from the state whomsoever they think fit ? ' S . 4 I am continually in doubt whether you are giving these things as your own opinion , or asking me for mine . ' P . * 1 am asking you . ' S . Then you are asking me two questions at once . ' P . How so V S . Did

    you not say , that orators , like despots , put to death whomsoever they desire , and deprive of his property and expel from the state whomsoever they think Jit ? ' * P . 'I did . ' 5 . l These I call two questions ; and I will answer both of them . I say that orators , and despots too , have scarcely any power at all in a Mate , inasmuch as they accomp lish scarcely any of the things which they desire ; but they certainly elftci what they think Jit . p . * But this surely ia to be powerful . ' S . * Not on your showing . * P . Not on my showing ? but it is on my showing .

    * * Ofof * v fat ! k * vrdHy whomsoever they desire ; Ibi & * 3 «* $ avr « 7 t , whomsoever they ttoink fit . The sequel will show that these two expressions mark , not inappropriately , the distinction which Plato had in view .

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    70 ft Plato 8 Dialogue * ; the Gorgias .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 702, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/26/