POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

130 A RISTO TLE’S PoLITics.

individuality may be too much for unity; or unity may only

be enforced by the strong will of a single person.

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    5. bus 62 UI) Ala djhou o“ri mpi iuiov &uazov. d yhp ah& ubv i~i Tiv
       67piwv dppdmrr hdyos.
       ‘Assuredly,’ retorts the opponent, or Aristotle himself, struck by
       an objection which had not previously occurred to him, ‘this prill.
       ciple cannot be true of a!l men. For it would be a reditcijo o,/
       absurdum to say that it was true of beasts, and some men are r,u
       better than beasts.’
       Admitting the objection Aristo:le still maintains that his doctrine
       of ‘collective wisdom’ is true of some men, though not of all.
       He proceeds to argue that deliberative and judicial functions may
       be safely granted to the many, and cannot be safely denied to
       them; but that it would be dangerous to entrust them with higii
       office.
    
    
    
    

wahoi ri Eia$ipovuru lvioi riiu Bqpiwv ;

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    7. 6rii r~ yLp ilBiKiov ~.ii 61‘ d+pocrGvqv T;L piv dBiKFiv hv rii %’ ripnpruvtiv
       uh&.
       The sentence is an anacoluthon ; it has been forgotten that no
       words such as ri~ds &tv or dUd7K7 have preceded, and that thq
       cannot be easily gathered from the contest.
    
    
    
    


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    9. :,youui uvurhddvrfs IKnvjv aZdqutv.
       Cp. Nic. Eth. vi. 10. $ 2, where the distinction is drawn betnm
       u;Iwuts (= aZu6quis in this passage), which is K~LTIK$ pbvou, ad
       $pdyuis? which is ;%lTaKTlKfj. And with both places, cp. Th.
       ii. 40. where Pericies, speaking in the name of the AtlieiiiJ:I
       democracy, say, j~or ~php& yf $ irBvpoGp& ;pear T& npdypara.
    
    
    
    


13. IO. I I. Aristotle is nom stating the other side of the argument :-‘Tllc
    physician is a better judge than he who is not a physician. Ant1
    it must be remarked that under the term ‘I physician” is incldc~
    I) the higher sort of physician, 2) the apothecary, and 3) the id-
    ligent amateur whether he practises medicine or not. In all of these
    there exists a knowledge 11 hich is not to be found in the man’.
    Apply this principle to the art of politics. Even in the choice nf
    magistrates the well-informed man, whether he be a statesman Or