Ath. No; but, if there had been, might not such a draught havebeen of use to the legislator as a test of courage? Might we not goand say to him, "O legislator, whether you are legislating for theCretan, or for any other state, would you not like to have atouchstone of the courage and cowardice of your citizens?"

Oh, and what did he say to that? I asked with cautious curiosity.

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that I am so fine and long that I shall make a beautiful piece of but there is much work to be done.

corpse tends to convert one.

Y. Soc. Yes.

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`No chance of my losing. Makhotin's the only one who's a dangerous entrant.'

I understand you, he replied; not perfectly, for you seem to me to be describing a task which is really tremendous; but, at any rate, I understand you to say that knowledge and being, which the science of dialectic contemplates, are clearer than the notions of the arts, as they are termed, which proceed from hypotheses only: these are also contemplated by the understanding, and not by the senses: yet, because they start from hypotheses and do not ascend to a principle, those who contemplate them appear to you not to exercise the higher reason upon them, although when a first principle is added to them they are cognizable by the higher reason. And the habit which is concerned with geometry and the cognate sciences I suppose that you would term understanding and not reason, as being intermediate between opinion and reason.

And shall I add, 'whether seen or unseen by gods and men'?