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or, quite the contrary, hate it?”
“Hate it,” he said. “When truth led the way,
no choir1
of evils, we, I fancy, would say, could ever follow in its train.”
“How could it?” “But rather a sound and just
character, which is accompanied by temperance.”
“Right,” he said. “What need, then, of
repeating from the beginning our proof of the necessary order of the choir
that attends on the philosophical nature? You surely remember that we found
pertaining to such a nature courage, grandeur of soul, aptness to learn,
memory.2 And when you interposed
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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