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see . It i ^ not true * that a good man * who speaks with the gre ^ te ^ Good always in view , will not apeak at haphazard ^ but with ; refe ( rsnce . to some end ? All other artists employ their various means , not picking them up at hazard , but ; looking to the aaturq of the > vork which they have to accomplish , and endeavouring that it may assume a certain
shape . The painter , the architect , the shipbuilder— -each of these , places his materials in a certain order , and contrives that one thing shall be fit and suitable to another , until the whole is completed , a regulated and ordered thing : Is it not so ? ' C . * It is . ' S . * A house which has regulation and order is a good house ; a disordered house is a bad ane . V C . ' Yes . ' S . And a ship ? .- ' C . Yes / S . * A ad our own bodies V C . * Yes . ' 5 ? . c And our minds V C . ' This must be ad .
mitted from the preceding admissions . ' S . * What name do we give to that which arises in the body , from order and regulation i ' C . * You mean , health and strength . ' S . ' And what is the name of thai which arises in the mind , from order and regulation ?* C . ' Why do not you yourself answer ? V S . If it pleases you , I will .. If you agree with me , say so , if not , refute me , I hold , that the order of the body is
termed healthiness , from whence health and all other good qualities of the body proceed ; and that the order and regulation of the mind is termed lawfulness , by which men become orderly and obedient to law : and this is as much as to say , justice and self-restraint . Do you assent ?' C . * Be it bo . ' S . * Then a good orator , an orator according to art , in all which he says and all which he does to those to whom he addresses himself , in all which he gives to them and all which he takes
away from them , will have constantly in view , in what manner justice may be produced in their minds and injustice removed , self-controul produced and self-indulgence removed * all virtue produced and vice removed . ' C . ' Granted . ' S . * For of what use is it to bestow upon a sick and ill-ordered body abundant and agreeable food or drink , which will do it no good , but often much harm ? * C . * Be it . so . ' S . * For it is not beneficial to man , to live with his body in a bad state ; that would be to live badly . ' C . c Yes . ' S . Physicians , then , usually permit a
person to satisfy his desires , by eating as much as he pleases when he is hungry and drinking when he is thirsty , so long as he is in health ; but when he is sick , they do not allow him to enjoy what he desires . Do you grant this ? ' C * I do / S . ' And is not the same thing equally true of the mind ? While it is in a bad state , while it is silly , and unjust , and impious , and incapable of self-controul , it should be kept from what it desires , and not permitted to do any thing except what will make it better . ' C . ' Granted / S . For this is better for the mind / C . Yea .
S . * But to keep it from what it desires , is to punish it ? ' C . ' It ia * S . * Then punishment is better for the mind than impunity / C . ' I do not know what you are talking about . Ask some one else . * & * Thii man cannot bear to be benefited , by suffering the very thing we are talking about , punishment / C . * l do not care for What you say :
I havte Answered you only on Gorgias ' s account . ' 8 . * Well : what shall we do ? Shall we break off the argument in the middle ? C . < Judgt for yourself / S . ' But it is no * lawful , tliey a * y , to k * v « evtm a story bmkf fini&hed t Without putting a head to it , that it may not go about headless . I beg you therefore to continue antweriag , thai our nrguottnt mayi Jmum A 4 tta 4 put t * it / C . * How otelinate you ***• "
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814 Plato * Dialogue * * th& Gorgias .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 814, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/68/
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