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if we may
perhaps prove able to make it plain to him that there is no pursuit
connected with the administration of a state that is peculiar to
woman?” “By all means.” “Come then,
we shall say to him, answer our question. Was this the basis of your
distinction between the man naturally gifted for anything and the one not so
gifted—that the one learned easily, the other with difficulty;
that the one with slight instruction could discover1 much for himself in the matter studied,
but the other, after much instruction and drill, could not even remember
what he had learned; and that the bodily faculties of the one adequately
served2 his mind,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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