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Are you aware that some people are called slavish?
Yes.
To what do they owe the name, to knowledge or to ignorance?
To ignorance, obviously.
To ignorance of the smiths’ trade, shall we say?
Certainly not.
Ignorance of carpentry perhaps?
No, not to that either.
Of cobbling?
No, to none of these: on the contrary, those who are skilled in such trades are for the most part slavish.
Then is this name given to those who are ignorant of the beautiful and good and just?
That is my opinion.
Are you aware that some people are called slavish?
Yes.
To what do they owe the name, to knowledge or to ignorance?
To ignorance, obviously.
To ignorance of the smiths’ trade, shall we say?
Certainly not.
Ignorance of carpentry perhaps?
No, not to that either.
Of cobbling?
No, to none of these: on the contrary, those who are skilled in such trades are for the most part slavish.
Then is this name given to those who are ignorant of the beautiful and good and just?
That is my opinion.
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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