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Or are you speaking to neither, but chiefly
carrying on the discussion for your own sake,1 without
however judging any other who may be able to profit by it?”
“This is the alternative I choose,” he said, “that
it is for my own sake chiefly that I speak and ask questions and
reply.” “Fall back2 a little, then,” said I; “for we just
now did not rightly select the study that comes next3 after geometry.” “What was our
mistake?” he said. “After plane surfaces,” said I,
“we went on to solids in revolution before studying them in
themselves.
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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