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    rhetorician , as the art of Legislation is nobler than the art of Judicature , and Gymnastics than Medicine * I , for my part , thought that orators and sophists were the only persons who were not entitled to accuse their scholars of behaving ill to them ; for in the same breath they would be

    accusing themselves of having done no good to those whom they undertook to improve . la it not so ? ' C . 'It is . % 8 . And they alone should have it in their power to bestow their particular kind of service without pay . A person who has received any other service , who has , for instance , acquired swiftness by the instructions of a gymnast , mil ? lit perhaps be ungrateful to the trynmast , unless he previously made

    a contract with him for the payment of hire . For men are not unjust by slowness , but by injustice . ' C . ' Yes . ' S . * Then if any one frees them from this quality of injustice , there is no danger of their being unjust to him . If he can really make men good , he alone may with safety cast this benefit at random . ' C . * He may . ' S . 'Therefore , it is no disgrace to take money for giving advice on any other subject , as on

    building , for example . ' C . * No . ' S . * But on this subject , how one may become most virtuous , and may best administer one ' s family or the state , it is considered disgraceful to say that we will not give advice unless we are paid for it . * C . fc Yes / S . ' And why ? Because of all services , this is the only one which of itself inspires the person benefited with a desire to repay the obligation : . so that it is a sign of having performed this service well , if we are requited for it , ill , if we are not . Is not this true ?' - C . It is /

    S . * To which , then , of these kinds of service do you exhort me ? As a physician , to strive that the Athenians may become as good as possible ? Or as a mere mini strati ve officer , to wait upon their desires ? Speak out boldly / W C . ' I say , then , as a ministrative officer / S . * You call upon me , then , to become an adulator / C . ' Had you rather be called a Mysian ?* as you certainly will , if you do not follow this advice / S . * Do not say , as you have said so often , that any one who pleases

    may put me to death ; lest I should answer , that if so , a bad man will put to death a good one . Nor that he will deprive me of my substance ; lest I should reply , that if he does , he will not be able to use it for his good ; but , as he acquired it unjustly , so he will use it unjustly ; if , unjustly , ignobly ; and if ignobly , perniciously to himself / C ' How confident you seem to be that you are in no danger of these things ! as if

    you could not be brought into danger of vout life , even perhaps by a worthless fellow / S . I must be very foolish , if I did not know that in this state any one whatever may be bo treated . This , however , I well know , that if I should , as you say , be charged with a criminal offence , it will be a bad man who charges me ; for no good man would indict a

    man who does no wrong . And it will be no wonder if I should be put to death . Shall I tell you why I think so ? ' C . 'If you please / S . * I think tliat I , with a very few other Athenians , ( not to say I alone , ) cultivate the true art of politics , and that I alone , among the men of the present day , am a politician in the true sense of the word . Since then I say whatever I do say , not for the gratification of any owe , but aiming

    • The moit detpiied of nil foreign nation * . Witnew the phrase *!•» £ Xu « , the ¦ poil of the Myttiunr , applied to any people « o poor in » pirit , that cv » n the unwarlike Mytiani could plunder t hum with impuuity .

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    Plato ' 8 Dialogues ; the Gorgiat . 837

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 837, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/19/