13' ARZSTTOTLE'S POLITICS.
many works of art and is not under the dominion of a single style,
He judges by a der range and is therefore less likely to fall into
eccentricity or exclusiveness.
See infra at the beginning of c. 12.
- ai ri, ripgpu 62 aXtiov rd advrwv ro6rov ri) rtv &a mi KO7'
ixiyous pcydXflr dpxhr cipxdvrwv.
Aristotle seems here to have fallen into the error of confoundicp
the collective wealth of the state with the wealth of indiviilui!a.
The former is the wealth of a great number of persons which may
be unequally distributed and in infinitesimally small portions amon:
the masses, thus affording no presumption of respectability or
education ; whereas the wealth of the indiyidual is the guarantee of
some at least of the qualities which are required in the good
citizen. cp. infra c. 13. $$ 4, IO.
rj 62 npirq XrXBriun lixoph Y.T.X.
That is to say the certainty that any single individunl or cia=, iI
dominant, will infringe upon the rights of others renders it ir4-
dispensable that the law should be above them all. Cp. c. 10. 4 I.
According to Bernajs (Transl. of Pol. 1-111. p. 172) c. I? aid
13 are a second sketch of the same discussion which has hew
commenced in c. 9-11 and is continued in c. 16 and 17. Bct
though in what foilow there is some repetition of what has pre-
ceded, e.g. c. 12. $4 I, z and c. 13. $ z compared with c. 9. E$ I, 2
c. 13. 5 I and c. 9. $$ 14, 15, and c. 13. $ IO with c. 11. $ 2 ff.. the
resemblances are not sufficient to justify this statement. In C. 13
new elements are introduced, e.g. the discussion on ostrackll:
and the end of c. 11 in which the supremacy of law is assertetl
(Q 20) has no immediate connesion with c. 14 in which the form
of monarchy are considered ; while the transition from the end of
c. 13, in which the claim of the one best man to be a monarc!l is
discussed, is not unnatural.
12.
- I. :re; 8 iu aduacs K,T.a,
Again, as in c. 9. 5 6, the apodosis appears to be lost in the
It is also possible to gather it from the
The process of reasoning will then
length of the sentence.
words aciov 6' iudrqs x.7.X. (5 2).
