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you are now seeking.”
“Your recollection is most exact,” I said; “for in
fact it had nothing of the kind. But in heaven's name, Glaucon, what study could
there be of that kind? For all the arts were in our opinion base and
mechanical.1” “Surely; and yet what other study is left
apart from music, gymnastics and the arts?”
“Come,” said I, “if we are unable to discover
anything outside of these, let us take
1 Cf. supra, p. 49 note e on 495 E. This idea is the source of much modern prejudice against Plato.
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