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Again, each man judges correctly those matters with which he is acquainted; it is of
these that he is a competent critic. To criticize a particular subject, therefore, a man must have
been trained in that subject: to be a good critic generally, he must have had an all-round
education. Hence the young are not fit to be students of Political Science.1 For they
have no experience of life and conduct, and it is these that supply the premises and
subject matter of this branch of philosophy.
1 Quoted in Troilus and Cressida, II. ii. 165.: Young men, whom Aristotle thought/Unfit to hear moral philosophy.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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