Dialogue

 1 Intro|     preceding dialogue. He is no longer under the spell of Socrates,
 2 Intro|           which no one would any longer think either of doubting
 3 Intro|        detected, and there is no longer any metaphysical impediment
 4 Intro|      Sophist, although he can no longer deny the existence of not-being,
 5 Intro| contradict himself. The maker of longer speeches is the popular
 6 Intro|       science of essence, and no longer to retain any relation to
 7 Intro|       world of mind. They are no longer the last word of philosophy,
 8 Intro|       authority of the master no longer retains a hold upon him.
 9  Soph|      very long one, a great deal longer than might be expected from
10  Soph|      matter to us, and let us no longer fancy that we understand
11  Soph|          who is the maker of the longer speeches? Is he the statesman