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must take it to pieces as they put it together and see whether the words, both the earliest and the later, are given systematically or not; for if they are strung together at haphazard, it is a poor, unmethodical performance, my dear Hermogenes.Hermogenes
By Zeus, Socrates, may be it is.Socrates
Well, do you believe you could take them to pieces in that way? I do not believe I could.Hermogenes
Then I am sure I could not.Socrates
Shall we give up then? Or shall we do the best we can and try to see if we are able to understand even a little about them,
By Zeus, Socrates, may be it is.Socrates
Well, do you believe you could take them to pieces in that way? I do not believe I could.Hermogenes
Then I am sure I could not.Socrates
Shall we give up then? Or shall we do the best we can and try to see if we are able to understand even a little about them,