Dialogue

  1 Intro|      Parmenides, and the Sophist, we may observe the tendency of
  2 Intro|           digressions. His own image may be used as a motto of his
  3 Intro|          cycle of human history, and may again exist when the gods
  4 Intro|             which dissimilar natures may be united in marriage and
  5 Intro|           the Politicus or Statesman may be briefly sketched as follows: (
  6 Intro|              of society.~The outline may be filled up as follows:—~
  7 Intro|           the adviser of a physician may be said to have medical
  8 Intro|          master of a large household may be compared to the ruler
  9 Intro|              But theoretical science may be a science either of judging,
 10 Intro|             some object, and objects may be divided into living and
 11 Intro|            tending of living animals may be either a tending of individuals,
 12 Intro|              a herdsman, and his art may be called either the art
 13 Intro|            concerned. And land-herds may be divided into walking
 14 Intro|         pedestrian. At this point we may take a longer or a shorter
 15 Intro|             walking, herding animal, may be divided into two classes—
 16 Intro|            hornless; and these again may be subdivided into animals
 17 Intro|         bird-taker and the king, who may be seen scampering after
 18 Intro|          famous old tradition, which may amuse as well as instruct
 19 Intro|            discredited, and yet they may be proved by internal evidence.
 20 Intro|            Enough of the myth, which may show us two errors of which
 21 Intro|              remodelled the name, we may subdivide as before, first
 22 Intro|         shepherd or manager. Then we may subdivide the human art
 23 Intro|         reducing them. Or our mythus may be compared to a picture,
 24 Intro|             In order that our labour may not seem to be lost, I must
 25 Intro|           only applying to the arts, may be some day required with
 26 Intro|  demonstration of absolute truth.~We may now divide this art of measurement
 27 Intro|           this notion of theirs they may very likely be right, are
 28 Intro|             in the world; from these may be parted off (2) vessels
 29 Intro|            other playthings, as they may be fitly called, for they
 30 Intro|          coins, seals, stamps, which may with a little violence be
 31 Intro|       themselves. I admit that there may be something strange in
 32 Intro|             three into six. Monarchy may be divided into royalty
 33 Intro|            plutocracy; and democracy may observe the law or may not
 34 Intro|     democracy may observe the law or may not observe it. But are
 35 Intro|           one, or of a few. And they may govern us either with or
 36 Intro|     difference. And as the physician may cure us with our will, or
 37 Intro| scientifically: so the true governor may reduce or fatten or bleed
 38 Intro|            unjust, if by a poor man? May not any man, rich or poor,
 39 Intro|      assembly, in which all who like may speak, the skilled as well
 40 Intro|            unprofessional court, and may be condemned and punished
 41 Intro|            plutocracy; and democracy may also be divided, for there
 42 Intro|              play is ended, and they may quit the political stage.
 43 Intro|             light of our example. We may compare the state to a web,
 44 Intro|            under them. The beautiful may be subdivided into two lesser
 45 Intro|          ludicrous, but in the State may be the occasion of grave
 46 Intro|              of grave disorders, and may disturb the whole course
 47 Intro|         element of courage, which we may call the warp, with the
 48 Intro|              of temperance, which we may imagine to be the woof.
 49 Intro|            subjects in the Statesman may be conveniently embraced
 50 Intro|             of Plato; lastly (7), we may briefly consider the genuineness
 51 Intro|             the Cratylus, that there may be consistency in error
 52 Intro|          improbabilities of the tale may be said to rest. These are
 53 Intro|          Phaedo, or the Gorgias, but may be more aptly compared with
 54 Intro|             Laws. Some discrepancies may be observed between the
 55 Intro|              divine help. Thus Plato may be said to represent in
 56 Intro|        discussing these problems, we may be satisfied to find in
 57 Intro|           general spirit of the myth may be summed up in the words
 58 Intro|         wholly deserted by the gods, may contain some higher elements
 59 Intro|            the rule of Cronos. So we may venture slightly to enlarge
 60 Intro|             of generalization, there may be more than one class to
 61 Intro|           class to which individuals may be referred, and that we
 62 Intro|          people the vacant mind, and may often originate new directions
 63 Intro|            are slippery things,’ and may often give a false clearness
 64 Intro|      excessive length of a discourse may be blamed; but who can say
 65 Intro|            the life of the arts, and may some day be discovered to
 66 Intro|               Other forms of thought may be noted—the distinction
 67 Intro|             co-operative arts, which may be compared with the distinction
 68 Intro|      opposite reflection, that there may be a philosophical disregard
 69 Intro|       dialectician, who, although he may be in a private station,
 70 Intro|            and, without idealism, we may remark that knowledge is
 71 Intro|             from which positive laws may be attacked:—either from
 72 Intro|              of government, which we may venture to term, (1) the
 73 Intro|            time some little violence may be used in exterminating
 74 Intro|      legislator, like the physician, may do men good against their
 75 Intro|        course of the dialogue, which may with advantage be further
 76 Intro|           ideal is a person or a law may fairly be doubted. The former
 77 Intro|            the law, in order that he may present to himself the more
 78 Intro|              of the law, yet the one may be by nature fitted to govern
 79 Intro|             interests and prejudices may sometimes be flattered and
 80 Intro|        Athens which he had known. It may however be doubted how far,
 81 Intro|            the wants of society, and may easily cause more evils
 82 Intro|           under legal regulation. It may be a great evil that physicians
 83 Intro|           character of the judge. He may be honest, but there is
 84 Intro|            their acts. Too many laws may be the sign of a corrupt
 85 Intro|            to the philosopher. There may have been a time when the
 86 Intro|            the Sophist and Statesman may be given here.~1. The excellence,
 87 Intro|          that in Plato’s writings we may expect to find an uniform
 88 Intro|             particular writings, but may be even an argument in their
 89 Intro|       thought and style disappear or may be said without paradox
 90 Intro|            different from them, they may be reunited with the great
 91 State|          Stranger, that both of them may be said to be in some way
 92 State|              the ruler of a country, may not he be said to have the
 93 State|             Again, a large household may be compared to a small state:—
 94 State|            of them; and this science may be called either royal or
 95 State|            he has.~STRANGER: Then we may put all together as one
 96 State|          STRANGER: Such as this: You may remember that we made an
 97 State|        SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER: And may therefore be justly said
 98 State|           That is evident.~STRANGER: May we not very properly say,
 99 State|             At what point?~STRANGER: May not all rulers be supposed
100 State|          help of this distinction we may make, if we please, a subdivision
101 State|            point?~STRANGER: One part may be set over the production
102 State|              is complete; and now we may leave one half, and take
103 State|             take up the other; which may also be divided into two.~
104 State|             tending of living beings may be observed to be sometimes
105 State|          herding to be of two kinds, may cause that which is now
106 State|            heard, as you very likely may—for I do not suppose that
107 State|            of the Great King; or you may have seen similar preserves
108 State|         described.~STRANGER: And you may have heard also, and may
109 State|             may have heard also, and may have been assured by report,
110 State|            them in turn, you clearly may.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Then I
111 State|          been abundantly proved, and may therefore be assumed.~STRANGER:
112 State|          measure of difference which may be appropriately employed
113 State|             power of twice two feet, may be said to be the diameter
114 State|           STRANGER: Very likely they may be, and we will consider
115 State|            instruments. And the same may be said of tenders of animals
116 State|          apprehend, that although we may have described a sort of
117 State|            STRANGER: I think that we may have a little amusement;
118 State|              of which a good portion may with advantage be interwoven,
119 State|              interwoven, and then we may resume our series of divisions,
120 State|            what no one has told, and may as well be told now; for
121 State|             the heavenly motions, we may consider this to be the
122 State|         imagine so.~STRANGER: And it may be supposed to result in
123 State|           Enough of the story, which may be of use in showing us
124 State|             include all, and then we may wrap up the Statesman with
125 State|           horned and hornless, so we may divide by these same differences
126 State|            then to divide, for there may be still considerable divisions.~
127 State|           voluntary bipeds politics, may we not further assert that
128 State|           which superintends them we may call, from the nature of
129 State|          derived from the State; and may we not say that the art
130 State|              order that the argument may proceed in a regular manner?~
131 State|           the production of clothes, may be called co-operative,
132 State|              great art of adornment, may be all comprehended under
133 State|              separate the composite, may be classed together as belonging
134 State|           art which is set over them may be called the art of spinning
135 State|       STRANGER: Very likely, but you may not always think so, my
136 State|           your mind, as it very well may, let me lay down a principle
137 State|          rational ground on which we may praise or blame too much
138 State|              think, however, that we may fairly assume something
139 State|            Clearly, in order that he may have a better knowledge
140 State|              of tediousness which we may have experienced in the
141 State|              whether great or small, may be regarded by us as co-operative,
142 State|              STRANGER: A class which may be described as not having
143 State|             for the sake of defence, may be truly called defences,
144 State|              for amusement only, and may be fairly comprehended under
145 State|              STRANGER: That one name may be fitly predicated of all
146 State|        offspring of many other arts, may I not rank sixth?~YOUNG
147 State|         simple kinds—the whole class may be termed the primitive
148 State|          form a seventh class, which may be called by the general
149 State|     nourishment; small things, which may be included under one of
150 State|      includes them; but some of them may, with a little forcing,
151 State|          among ornaments, and others may be made to harmonize with
152 State|             nearer, in order that we may be more certain of the complexion
153 State|              rulers.~STRANGER: There may be something strange in
154 State|              various forms of States may the science of government,
155 State|             many kings. For kings we may truly call those who possess
156 State|           has these characteristics, may be described as the only
157 State|              form of bodily exercise may be.~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~
158 State|           knows how the ancient laws may be improved, he must first
159 State|             improvement, and then he may legislate, but not otherwise.~
160 State|            if by a poor man, unjust? May not any man, rich or poor,
161 State|            and in the self-same way, may there not be a true form
162 State|        preserve them, and, as far as may be, to make them better
163 State|             of persons, whoever they may be, can attain political
164 State|             easy or familiar; but we may attempt to express it thus:—
165 State|          anybody who likes, whatever may be his calling, or even
166 State|          even if he have no calling, may offer an opinion either
167 State|              and anybody who pleases may be their accuser, and may
168 State|            may be their accuser, and may lay to their charge, that
169 State|              who is qualified by law may inform against him, and
170 State|            known to all, for anybody may learn the written laws and
171 State|            motives of the imitation, may not such an one be called
172 State|               we must.~STRANGER: You may say that of the three forms,
173 State|              from which the true one may be distinguished as a seventh.~
174 State|             one which has knowledge, may be set aside as being not
175 State|              the examination of them may be compared to the process
176 State|            the illustration of music may assist in exhibiting him.
177 State|         common nature, most truly we may call politics.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
178 State|              or sluggishness; and we may observe, that for the most
179 State|           education, something noble may be made, and who are capable
180 State|             the stronger element and may be regarded as the warp,
181 State|             and wise, as far as this may be in a State, but if not,
182 State|             ways, and in those only, may we not say that union is
183 State|             during many generations, may at first bloom and strengthen,