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of both, but first of the
false?” “I don't understand your meaning.”
“Don't you understand,” I said, “that we begin
by telling children fables, and the fable is, taken as a whole, false, but
there is truth in it also? And we make use of fable with children before
gymnastics.” “That is so.” “That,
then, is what I meant by saying that we must take up music before
gymnastics.” “You were right,” he said.
“Do you not know, then, that the beginning in every task is the
chief thing,1 especially for any creature that
is young and tender2?
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