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jots not surpass them in painfulness / JP . So it seems / S . But that which surpasses all things in mischievousnese must be the greatest of evils / P . 4 Yen . S . Then injustice , and intemperance , and , in a word , the vice-of the mind , is the greatest of evils / P . 4 So it appears / S . c What art is it which cures us of poverty ? Is it not that of the man of business ? ' P . c It is / S . * And what art cures us of disease I
Is it not medicine V P . * Undoubtedly / S . And what art cures us of wickedness and injustice ? If this be not immediately obvious , let us look at it in another way . To whom do we hand over those whose bodies are disordered V P . * To the physician / S . ' And to whom do we hand over those who are unjust and lawless ? ' P . * You mean , to the magistrate . ' S . * In order to suffer punishment ?* P . ' Yes /
S . ' And those who punish rightly , do so by the exercise of justice . ' P . They do / S . * The art of the man of business , then , rids us of poverty , medicine rids us of disease , legal justice rids us of injustice and intemperance V P . ' So it seems / S . * Which of these three , then , is the most noble V P . * Justice , by far / S . * Then it either produces the greatest pleasure , or the greatest benefit , or both V P . Yes . ' S . 'Is it a pleasant thing to be under the hands of the physician ? R No . * S . But it is useful V P . * Yes / S . ' For it cures us of a
great evil ; so that it is for our good to suffer the pain , and receive health / P . Undoubtedly / S . * But whether is he most happy who undergoes medical treatment , or he who has not been ill at all V P . * Certainly the latter . For happiness is not to get rid of an evil , but sever to have had it . S . ' But of two persons who have a malady , either of the body or of the mind , which is the most miserable , he who undergoes medical treatment and is cured , or he who undergoes no medical treatment and continues ill V P . * The last is the most
miserable / S . But to suffer punishment was , we admitted , to be freed from the worst of evils , viz ., wickedness / P . * It was . ' S . * For punishment chastens men , and makes them more just , and is a kind of medicine for the vice of the mind / P . * Yes / S . * He then is happiest who has not the vice of the mind : the next happiest is he who is cured of it , viz " ., he who is reproved , and undergoes punishment . He who is afflicted with injustice , and is not cured , has the worst life of all ; and that is , he who commits the greatest crimes , with the greatest success , and escapes all reproof , and all punishment ; as you say is the case with Archelaus , and other despots and orators . * P . * So it appears / S . 1 their case is like that of a person afflicted with the worst diseases , who should bo manage as never to be punished by physicians for the vicious state of his body , by undergoing medical treatment ; being afraid , like a child , of cutting and burning , because it is painful . Do you not think so ? ' P . I do / S . ' And being ignorant , it would seem , of Ae value of health , and the excellence which belongs to the body , those who fly from punishment appear , from our admissions , to be ia a similar situation : they see the painfulness of it , but are blind to the ut ility , and know not how much more wretched it is to be afflicted with & unsound mind , than with an unsound body . They therefore use all toeans which may aid them in escaping from punishment and from cure , by collecting money , and obtaining friends , and acquiring the power ? f persuasion . But if our admissions were correct , do you see what Allows , or shall we state it particularly ? ' P . ' If you have no objec-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 709, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/33/
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