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who has fallen into poverty and
abandonment?” “There is no difference at all,”
he said. “Of what sort will probably be the offspring of such
parents?” “Will they not be bastard1 and base?”
“Inevitably.” “And so when men unfit for
culture approach philosophy and consort with her unworthily, what sort of
ideas and opinions shall we say they beget? Will they not produce what may
in very deed be fairly called sophisms, and nothing that is genuine or that
partakes of true intelligence2?” “Quite
so,” he said.“There is a
very small remnant,3 then,
Adeimantus,” I said,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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