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28 Pro. Socrates is right, Philebus; you ought to do as he asks.

28 Phi. Did you not, Protarchus, elect to reply in my place?

28 Pro. Yes; but now I am somewhat at a loss, and I ask you, Socrates, to be our spokesman yourself, that we may not select the wrong representative and so say something improper.

28 Soc. I must do as you ask, Protarchus; and it is not difficult. But did I really, as Philebus said, embarrass you by playfully exalting my god, when I asked to what class mind and knowledge should be assigned?

28 Pro. You certainly did, Socrates.

28 Soc. Yet the answer is easy; for all philosophers agree—whereby they really exalt themselves—that mind is king of heaven and earth. Perhaps they are right. But let us, if you please, investigate the question of its class more at length.

28 Pro. Speak just as you like, Socrates. Do not consider length, so far as we are concerned you cannot bore us.

28 Soc. Good. Then let us begin by asking a question.

28 Pro. What is the question?

28 Soc. Shall we say, Protarchus, that all things and this which is called the universe are governed by an irrational and fortuitous power and mere chance, or, on the contrary, as our forefathers said, are ordered and directed by mind and a marvellous wisdom?

28 Pro. The two points of view have nothing in common, my wonderful Socrates. For what you are now saying seems to me actually impious. But the assertion that mind orders all things is worthy of the aspect of the world, of sun, moon, stars, and the whole revolving universe; I can never say or think anything else about it.

29 Soc. Do you, then, think we should assent to this and agree in the doctrine of our predecessors, not merely intending to repeat the words of others, with no risk to ourselves, but ready to share with them in the risk and the blame, if any clever man declares that this world is not thus ordered, but is without order?

29 Pro. Yes, of course I do.

29 Soc. Then observe the argument that now comes against us.

29 Pro. Go on.

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