Dialogue

 1 Intro|       more ideal conception of politics than any other of Plato’
 2 Intro|       improve our knowledge of politics, but our reasoning powers
 3 Intro|         when the foundation of politics is in the letter only, at
 4 Intro|   which are contained weaving, politics, dialectic; and in connexion
 5 Intro|     subjects,—an ‘education in politics’ as well as in moral virtue;
 6 Intro| combined two distinct subjects—politics and method. Yet they are
 7 Intro|     both in ancient and modern politics also arise in the course
 8 Intro| growths, both in nature and in politics, are the most permanent.~
 9 Intro|        educate them. In modern politics so many interests have to
10 Intro|      by Plato to exist between politics and dialectic. In both dialogues
11 State|      herds of voluntary bipeds politics, may we not further assert
12 State|       improve our knowledge of politics, or our power of reasoning
13 State|     any claim to statecraft or politics?~YOUNG SOCRATES: No; unless,
14 State|         unless, indeed, to the politics of commerce.~STRANGER: But
15 State|     And when the foundation of politics is in the letter only and
16 State|        wholly unaquainted with politics, of which, above all other
17 State|       am not mistaken, will be politics?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Very good.~
18 State|     quickly distinguished from politics, being a different species,
19 State|         most truly we may call politics.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Exactly
20 State|       a State, shall I analyse politics after the pattern which