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Now if this is so, clearly it behoves the statesman to have some
acquaintance with psychology, just as the physician who is to heal the eye or the other parts of the body1 must know their anatomy. Indeed a foundation of science is even more
requisite for the statesman, inasmuch as politics is a higher and more honorable art than
medicine; but physicians of the better class devote much attention to the study of the
human body.
1 The context seems to disprove the alternative rendering ‘just as to cure eyes the oculist must have a general of the structure of the whole of the body as well.’ The illustration is a reminiscence of Plat. Charm. 156b-e, but does not follow that passage exactly.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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