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I should say in reply to our questioner, is of a kind that is just: would you also?Yes, he said.Now suppose he proceeded to ask us: Do you also speak of a “holiness”? We should say we do, I fancy.Yes, he said.Then do you call this a thing also? We should say we do, should we not?He assented again.Do you say this thing itself is of such nature as to be unholy, or holy? For my part I should be annoyed at this question, I said, and should answer: Hush, my good sir!
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.
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