Dialogue

 1 Repub|   length he consented to begin. Behold, he said, the wisdom of
 2 Repub|  heavens! with my eyes verily I behold a dear friend of mine chased
 3 Repub|     Come up hither, I said, and behold the various forms of vice,
 4 Repub|         possibility of life and behold the light of day." Such
 5 Repub|         the virtues too we must behold not the outline merely,
 6 Repub|       true. ~And do you wish to behold what is blind and crooked
 7 Repub|      they are really seeking to behold the things themselves, which
 8 Repub|   enlightened or unenlightened: Behold! human beings living in
 9 Repub|         have been accustomed to behold? ~Clearly, he said, he would
10 Repub|         ought, by all means, to behold. ~True, he said. ~Then if
11 Repub|      The starry heaven which we behold is wrought upon a visible
12 Repub|          which we may chance to behold; any geometrician who saw
13 Repub| imagined by us after a while to behold the real animals and stars,
14 Repub|         my best, and you should behold not an image only, but the
15 Repub|       being, but never can they behold the waking reality so long
16 Repub|        lightens all things, and behold the absolute good; for that
17 Repub|        which he who desires may behold, and beholding, may set
18 Repub|        really is, not as we now behold her, marred by communion
19 Repub|     form. And the soul which we behold is in a similar condition,
20 Repub|        Necessity. Mortal souls, behold a new cycle of life and