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Harry M. Hubbell, Ph.D., 



11, 30, 



col. 20. 



II, 31, col. 

 XXXV. 



II, 31, 



col. 21. 



II, 32, col. 

 XXXVI. 



11, 33, 



col. 22. 



II. 33, col. 

 XXXVII. 



II, 34, 

 col. 23. 



multitude. But this is no disadvantage, unless it can be called 

 a disadvantage that they are not adapted by nature to receive 

 the highest life. 



The philosopher does not choose his profession- for the same 

 reason that one chooses military or political pouter. The latter 

 with a slowly acting mind is willing to accept any power, while 

 the former by syllogisms and memory of resemblance and dif- 

 ference, and a consideration of consequences, and especially by 

 the use of his sharpness of intellect, rejects everything that does 

 not tend toward happiness, and shares in them only as he uses 

 the necessary arts for the tasks that arise. For to say positively 

 that military and political power is the result of geometrical 

 reasoning is vicious and is the product of a system that cannot 

 reason or produce happiness. The philosopher is not of such 

 a character but in every matter uses his keen mind, with which 

 he is able to see when the ambition or idleness of men goes 

 wrong, and neglects everything which is not useful for happiness. 



The aforementioned makes a foolish argument because in 

 asking if the philosopher is adverse to lawmaking or military life 

 or political economy he sees none of the advantages of wisdom, 

 nor considers for what evils a man is responsible himself, and 

 for what his neighbor is responsible. Nor has he stated in 

 what respect the philosopher is adverse to such subjects, nor 

 distinguished how far the multitude can be helped, and in what 

 way man is superior to the animals ; but thinking that what the 

 opinion of the people honors in political cleverness and virtue 

 falsely so-called is the only thing to be sought, he considers 

 that to have led one to that condition is the best proof of sound 

 reasoning. On this assumption he tries to show that some 

 advantage is contributed by the so-called politicians, and at the 

 same time attacks the lawmaking of the ancients, which was 

 the cause of men's living together justly. Moreover it is neces- 

 sary to purify the desires ; this cannot be accomplished by 

 statement and patterns or guidance by political principles and 

 laws, but hy reasoning about wholes starting from the first clear 

 evidence. 



On account of the various faults of mankind it is right for 

 the rhetor to guide and correct the community . . .^^ 



"On the phrase at the end of the column ol toi>j v6fiovs Kai tAj TroXire/as 

 ypd(povT€s Tu>v (TO(pL(TTC>v Goniperz, Zeit. f. d. ost. Gymn. XXIII (1872) p. 32, 



