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people , I am not much persuaded by you / S . ' The passion for the people , with which your soul is filled , resists me . But if we consider the subject better , and frequently , you will perhaps be persuaded . 4 Remember , now , that we said there were two methods of ministering either to the body or the mind ; the one having in view Pleasure , the
other aiming at the greatest Good , whether producing pleasure or pain / C . * We did . ' S . * That which aims at pleasure , is ignoble , and no better than adulation . * C * Let it be so if you please . ' S . 4 The other aims at what is best for that which it serves , be it the body or the mind / C . * Yes . ' & ' Ousrht we not then to attach ourselves to the service of
our country and our countrymen , with a view to make them as good as we can ? For without this , as we have found before , it is of no use to render them any other benefit , since if their minds are not well ordered ; it does them no good to obtain either wealth or authority or any other power . Is it not so ? ' C . 'If you will /
S . If then we were exhorting one another to apply ourselves to the public works , the building of walls , or temples , or docks , ought we not to examine ourselves , and see , in the first place , whether we understand the art of architecture or not , and under what master we have studied it ? ' C . ' Certainly / S . ' And next , whether we have ever constructed any private edifice , for ourselves or any of our friends , and whether it be a good or a bad one . For if , examining ourselves , we found that we had studied under good and celebrated teachers , and had
erected many admirable edifices , first under our masters , and afterwards by ourselves when he had 'left our masters , we should then act like reasonable beings in undertaking the public works . But if we could not name any person who had been our teacher ; nor point to any buildings which we had erected , or to any that were not worthless , it would be senseless in us to take upon ourselves the . construction of any public work , and to exhort each other to do so . Is this rightly said or not ? ' C . * It is . S . c And so likewise if we were about to
practise as physicians , or were inviting one another to do so , you and I ought to consider of one another thus : Pray how is Socrates himself in respect to health ? Has any one been ever cured of an illness through Iris means ? And I should ask the same questions respecting you . And if we could not discover that any one , foreigner or citizen , man or woman ,
had been brought into a-better state of body by our means , would it not be ridiculous in us to attempt , * as the ' proverb says , to learn pottery in the pot itself , and endeavour to practise for the public before we had tried in private , failed often and * succeeded often , until we have sufficiently exercised ourselves in the art ? ' C ' It would / S . * Now , then , since you have recently begun to transact the affairs of the state , and are calling upon me and reproaching me because I do not follow your example , let us examine one another : Pray has Callicles ever made any of the citizens a better man ? Is there any person , foreigner or citizen , slave or freeman , who , having been previously unjust and intemperate and thoughtless , has been made a good man by Callicles ? If any one were to ask you this question , what would you say ? Do you not like to answer whether you have accomplished any achievement of this sort while
yet in a private station , before you attempted to practise publicly ?' C . * You are reproachful / 8 . * I do not ask the question from any wish to reproach you , but from a real wish to know in what way you
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Plaids Dialogues ; the Gorgias . 833
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 833, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/15/
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