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    S . Fray explain yourself further . If there were many of tfs «» - gambled together , possessing- in common a great supply of food and drink ; and if we were people of all descriptions , some of us sh ^ rig and other * weak , but one of ot , being a physician , was more iirielligdtiHhan the rest on the subject of diet ; would not he be better and superior , as compared with the rent of ui , so far as these thing * were concerned V f

    C . ' Certainly S * * Ought he , then , at being the better , to have a . larger share of food than the rest ? or ought he to be intrusted , indeed , with the distribution , bat not permitted to take a greater quantity for bis own use than any other , on pain of punishment V C . * You talk of food , and drink , and physicians , and such stuff , but that is not what 1 mean *' S . i Do you not « ay that the more intelligent are the better V C . * I do / 8 . ' And that the better ought to have the larger share V C . * Not of 4

    food or of drink . * S . 1 understand : of clothing , perhaps . The man who understands most of weaving , ought to have the largest coots and the finest , and to walk about with the greatest number of them on his body . ' C . * Why will you talk about coats V 8 . It is of shoes then , that the person who is most intelligent respecting them , ought to have the largest share . The shoemaker should wear the largest shoes , and . the greatest number of them at once . * C « What stuff is this about 6

    shoes ! ' S . Or , perhaps , you mean that he who is intelligent and skilful in agriculture , ought to hare the largest quantity of seed , and employ most of it on his own land . ' C . * You always say the same thing / S . 4 On the same subject , I always do . " C . You will not cease speaking of tanners and fullers and cooks and physicians , as if that were what we are talking about / 8 . ' Will you not tell me , then , what is the subject

    in which those who are most intelligent are justly entitled to superiority ? Will you neither tell me , nor suffer me to guess ? € . * I have told you long ago . Those whom I caii the superior and the better , are not shoemakers , nor cooks , but those who are intelligent in the affairs of the state , and in the proper mode of administering it ; and not only intelligent but courageous , capable of accomplishing what they devise , and not faltering by effeminacy of soul / 4

    8 . Your complaint of me , and mine of you , are very different . You bUme me for always saying the same thing ; I , on the contrary , blame you , for never saying the same thing on the same subject . You first defined the better to be the stronger ; then , the more intelligent ; and now you say that they ate the more courageous . Pray tell me , once for all , who they are . ' C . 4 1 have told you , that they are the more intelligent in public affairs , and the more courageous . These are the persons who

    ** entitled to govern the state ; and k is just that these should have a larger share ttoan th « rest , since they command , and the others are comiftattded . ' 8 . ' Do you imply that they should command themselves as w # ll as others ? Or is it not necessary for any one to command himself , to * only other people ? C * What do you mean by commanding him > •* ' * 8 . Only what the vulgar mean , to be temperate and ftober , KWerttS ag his own pleasure * and dewrea / C . * How pleaaant you are ! Y < m describe a sitnptrtoa , and call him a sober ceraon . How can a J ** m be happy if be is a slave to any tiling ? I freely tell voo , that *«* is nx > We and just by nature , is that he who would live well , fkotM "W his xleaiies to attain the greatest possible fitreegih , and ttvrtft

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 807, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/61/