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Then do you suppose it possible to know popular government without knowing the people?
Indeed I don’t.
And do you know, then, what the people consists of?
I think so.
Of what do you suppose it to consist?
The poorer classes, I presume.
You know the poor, then?
Of course I do.
And you know the rich too?
Yes, just as well as the poor.
What kind of men do you call poor and rich respectively?
The poor, I imagine, are those who have not enough to pay for what they want; the rich those who have more than enough.
Then do you suppose it possible to know popular government without knowing the people?
Indeed I don’t.
And do you know, then, what the people consists of?
I think so.
Of what do you suppose it to consist?
The poorer classes, I presume.
You know the poor, then?
Of course I do.
And you know the rich too?
Yes, just as well as the poor.
What kind of men do you call poor and rich respectively?
The poor, I imagine, are those who have not enough to pay for what they want; the rich those who have more than enough.
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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