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[590c] “Yes, indeed,” he said. “And why do you suppose that ‘base mechanic’1 handicraft is a term of reproach? Shall we not say that it is solely when the best part is naturally weak in a man so that it cannot govern and control the brood of beasts within him but can only serve them and can learn nothing but the ways of flattering them?” “So it seems,” he said. “Then is it not in order that such an one may have a like government with the best man that we say he ought to be the slave

1 Cf. p. 49, note e.

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