Dialogue

 1 Repub|  they, he said, if they are blind and cannot see? ~You mean
 2 Repub|    grow feeble and dull and blind, his mind never waking up
 3 Repub|   may be supposed not to be blind to the risks of war, but
 4 Repub| such persons, I ask, simply blind? ~Truly, he replied, they
 5 Repub|   bad, and the best of them blind? You would not deny that
 6 Repub|  intelligence are only like blind men who feel their way along
 7 Repub|  you wish to behold what is blind and crooked and base, when
 8 Repub|   see dimly, and are nearly blind; they seem to have no clearness
 9 Repub|     before, like sight into blind eyes. ~They undoubtedly
10 Repub|   end; he is the reverse of blind, but his keen eyesight is
11 Repub|     would never have made a blind god director of his chorus,