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That is true, Socrates; but so little seems to be known as yet about these subjects.

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'May be,' my friend, I replied, is not the word; say rather 'must be affirmed:' for he whose nature is amorous of anything cannot help loving all that belongs or is akin to the object of his affections. �

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Surely, there is no better way to stop the rising of new sects, and schisms; than to reform abuses; to compound the smaller differences; to proceed mildly, and not with sanguinary prosecutions; and rather to take off the principal authors, by winning and advancing them, than to enrage them by violence and bitterness.

Ath. Would not all implements have then perished and every otherexcellent invention of political or any other sort of wisdom haveutterly disappeared?

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