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Callicles replied , ' Yoix * re a true hsraiigatr , aa 4 you h * r # turn Wtofc this triumphant harangue , merely b * ea < f *« Polus hs # dm * what 1 ) 6 Mm * ielf charged Garcia * with doing . When you a » lt * d Gftrgfas wfertlber , if a pernm who wished to learn rhetoric , came Id Mm ignorant of jrntta * , be would teach it to him , Gorgi a * * akl Ywf b eiai *** fie wa # ashamed lo jay No , on account of the custom of men , because they wotrid to todig * nant if he said that he would not ; and Potos remarked this , and sakL
that this admonition was what forced Gtargtat to gMtfadiet himself , mnd that thi » is what delights you : and he ridiculed y e ** , at that tm * % ** I thought * very justly . But now the same thing' has happened to himself What I do not admire in Polos is , that he admitted that to \ mym le more ignoble than to be injured . It wae by this adflri ** toff that he was £ *§» tangled , and had his mouth shot up , being ashamed to say what ft *
thought . For you , pretending to pursue truth , aiw * y » drive the argu ment to an invidous appeal to common prejudices , m&kmg ' H turn ttpcHt the things which are not noble by nature , but only by institution . Tfce # 6 tiro things , nature and institution , are , for the most part , contrary to om soother : and if a man is ashamed , and does no * dare to say what he tfeiwfe * * be is forced to contradict himself . But the wise fnrentfoii whicfc enaMes
you to force him to contradict himself i » a mere quibble r when a ma » ls speaking of institution , you interpret H of natorc , and wfcevi of natare ; ywt interpret it of institution . For instance , on this subject of vnj&tmg ami bong injured , Polua spoke of what was more ignoble by inafitatmf , and you met him with what was more ignoble hj mmtom . B f mttems , to be injured is not only worse , but also mm ignofefe , titan to kqexe : by m ~ ftitation only i » it more ignoUe to injure . To be injwrcd is not the attri bute of a man , but of a stare , fitter to < K * than to fin ^ who , H i » m
wronged or insulted , is mC capable of protecting hkmelf flortMse wkoos he cares for . But the makers ol institution are Ae Many , and the weafe » They make their laws * and dispense their prfcia * mad btotowr , with a view U > themselves , and to their own advantage . Fearmg lest the more enep * getic , who are capable of attaining superiority , s ^ ofild attain it orer them , they call it base aad unjifst to take more than otker people , and wen affirm that this is precisely what constitutes mjastice . For thcy 9 being the feebler , mre contented with eqoalitf . By instrtutfoir , therefotr ,
to aim at superiority is unjvst and ignoble , and is termed , to do injury * But Nature kerself shows that it is just for the better to take more thai * the worse , and the stronger than the weaker . She shows , in the other animals , and in whole matkras and races of men * that , for the stronger to govern the weaker , and to take the longer share , w true justice . With what justice did Xerxes make war < m Greece , or his fktiter , Dsriu » , on the Scythians 1 They did what was just by nature , antf hy
the laws of nature ^ not by those which we devise * entailing the best ami stron gest among' us > like lions , when they are yotmfr / , and ensJsriirg them by fictions aad old songs , telling them that nobleness and joatiea consist in equality . But if a man arises , adequately endowed by natort ? T h « breaks through , * n& shakes off these fetters * and , trampling upon , our statutes and our charmed words , and all institutions contrary to nature , Rftcs up our master , no longer our alar © , and the justice of natttm sfiitm forth in him . Pindar indicates this , in the ode m which he saps tfta * fctcules took away the omd of Cforyon * anther baying them narts « ini » g them by gm ; thtt bring satetat j « alic » y and ait mo p—nasfnini
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 803, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/57/
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