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    P , ' And I aay that neither I nor any other person is of that opinion . Would you yourself rather be injured than injure V S . * And you , too , and every one . ' P . 'No such thing . ' S . 'Then will you answer ?' P . * Yes ; for I greatly desire to hear what you will find to say . ' S . Suffer me then to interrogate you , beginning from the very

    commencement . Do you think it a greater evil to be injured , or to injure ?' P . ' To be injured . ' S . * Which do you think the more ignoble , to be injured or to injure ? answerme / P . "To injure . ' S . * Then if it be more ignoble , it is more evil . ' P . By no means . ' S . ' I understand : you do not , it seems , consider Noble and Good , Ignoble and Evil , to be the same things ? ' P . * Certainly not . ' €

    S . Listen then . When you call any thing noble , as a noble countenance , or air , or figure , or voice , or conduct ; what is it that you look to in calling them noble ? Do you not , for instance , affirm of a man , that he has a noble person , either on account of some use , to which his person is subservient , or of some pleasure which it produces to those who see it ? Can you assign any other reason ? ' P . * I cannot . ' S . ' And are not all noble voices , and persons , ami so forth , called so , either on

    account of some pleasure , or some utility , or both V P . * Yes / S . ' And what is noble in conduct and action , is called noble on no other account , but either because it is useful , or agreeable , or both . * P . So it appears to me . And you define the noble well , when you define it by the Pleasant and the Good . ' S . ' Then the ignoble must be defined by

    the contraries of these , Pain and Evil . ' P . * Of necessity . ' S . * When , therefore , of two noble things , one is the nobler , it is so because it excels the other in pleasantness , or usefulness , or in both . ' P . ' Certainly . ' S . ' And when , of two ignoble things , the one is more ignoble than the other , it is so , by exceeding it either in pain , in evil , or in both . ' P . ' Yes '

    8 . Let us now call to mind what was said respecting Injuring" and Being Injured . Did you not say , that to be injured was more evil , but to injure , more ignoble ? P . ' I did . 8 . ' Then , if to injure be more ignoble than to be injured , it must either be more painful , or more evil , or both / P . * No doubt . ' < S . 4 Let us then consider , in the first place—I 9 to injure , more painful than to be injured ? Does the person who does an injury suffer more pain than he who undergoes it V P . * Certainly

    not . ' 8 . ' It does taot then exceed in painful ness . ' P . * No . ' * S \ * H not in painfulness , certainly not in both . * P . ' So it seems . ' S . * Then it must exceed in evil . ' P . ' It appears so . ' S . c Then to injure is more evil than to be injured . ' P . * It is evident . ' S . 'It was admitted some time ago by you , in behalf of yourself , and of mankind in general , that to injure is more ignoble than ' to be injured ? ' P . ' Yes . ' S . ' And now it has appeared to be more evil . ' P . ' It has . ' S . ' Would you then prefer that which is more ignoble and more evil , to that which is less

    so ? Do not fear to answer , for you will receive no hurt , but nobly give yourself up to the argument as to a physician , and either admit or deny my proposition . P . ' I would not prefer it . ' 5 T . Would any one V * * ' According to this argument it would appear not . « 8 . 4 I spoke tr , then , when I said that neither you , nor I , nor any one , would choose rather to do than to suffer an injury ; for it is a greater evil . ' * * ' It see me so . ' S . ' You see , then , the difference between this mode of refutation and the other . You had the suffrages of all the world *

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    Plato * a Dialogues ; the . Gorgias . 707

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 707, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/31/