Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-22

men when they do their own work?
AL. | suppose not.
Soc. Nor men by women when they
do their own work?
AL. No.
| Soc. Nor are the states well admins
tered, when individuals do their own
work!
AL. | should rather think, Socrates,
that the reverse is the truth.
Soc. What! do you mean to say that
states are well administered when friend
ship is absent, the presence of which, as
we were saying, alone secures their good
order?
AL. But should say there is friend
ship among them, for this very reason,
that the two parties respectively do their
own work.
Soc. That was not what you were
saying just now; and what do you mean
by affirming that friendship exists where
there is no agreement about matters
which the one party knows, and of which
the other is in ignorance?
AL. Impossible.
Soc. And when individuals are doing
their own work, are they doing what is
just or unjust?
AL. What is just, certainly.
Soc. And when individuals do what
is just in state, is there no friendship
among them?
O., AL. l suppose that there must be, Soc
rates.
Soc. Then what do you mean by this
friendship or agreement about which we
must be wise and discreet in order that
we may be good men? / cannot make
out where it exists or among whom; ac-
cording to you, the same persons may
sometimes have it, and sometimes not.
AL. But, indeed, Socrates, do not
know what l am saying; and / have
long been, unconsciously to myself, in
most reprehensible condition.
Soc. Nevertheless, cheer up; at fifty
if you had discovered your Deficiency o,
would have been too old, and the time fol
taking care Iof yourself would hav'
passed away, but yours is just the age a
which the discovery should be made.
AL. And what should he do, Socrates
who would make the discovery?
Soc. Answer questions, Alcibiades
and that is process which by the grac
of God, if | may put any faith in my or
acle, will be very improving to both o
us.
AL. If l can be improved by answer
ing, will answer.
Soc. And first of all, that we may no
be deceived by appearance, fancying, per
haps, that we are taking care of ourselve
when we are not, what is the meaning o
a man taking care of himself? And doe
. himself when he takes care of what be
longs to him?
, AL. I should think so.
+ Soc. When does man take care o
when.he takes care of that which belong
to his feet?
AL. | do not understand.
Soc. Let me take the hand as an illus
tration: does not ring belong to the fin
r ger, and to the finger only?
| AL. Yes.
Soc. And the shoe in like manner t
5 the foot?
, AL. Yes.
Soc. And when we take care of GU
, shoes, do we not take care of our feet?
AL. l do not comprehend, Socrates.
Soc. But you acknowledge, Adelaide
{ that there is such thing as taking care
AL. Yes.
Soc. And taking proper care mean
improving?
AL. Yes.
! Soc. And what is the art which in
proves our shoes?
AL. Shoemaking.
5 Soc. Then by shoemaking we tax
e care of our shoes?
s AL. Yes.
Soc. And do we by shoemaking tax
care of our feet, or by some other whic
Y improves the feet?
AL. BY some other art.
Soc. And the same art improves tn
: feet which improves the rest of the body
AL. Very true.
Soc. And that is gymnastc?
AL. Certainly.
Soc. Then by gymnastic we take car
of our feet, and by shoemaking of tina
I which belongs to oui feet?
AL. Very true.
! Soc. And by gymnastics we take car
of our hands, and by the art of gravin
rings of that which belongs to our hands
AL. Yes.
Soc. And by gymnastic we take car
of the body, and by the art of weavin
and the other arts we take care of tn
things of the body?
AL. Clearly.
Soc. Then the art which takes care G
L each thing is different from that whic