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would not that pain his eyes, and would he not turn
away and flee to those things which he is able to discern and regard them as in
very deed more clear and exact than the objects pointed out?”
“It is so,” he said. “And if,” said I,
“someone should drag him thence by force up the ascent1 which is rough and steep, and not let him go
before he had drawn him out into the light of the sun, do you not think that he
would find it painful to be so haled along, and would chafe at it, and when
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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