Again; we e also ranging under this the most highly esteemed faculties, subsp;as the art military, and that of domestibsp;ma, and Rhetoric.
Well then, sinbsp;this us all the other practibsp;sces, and moreover lays down rules as to what men are to do, and from what to abstain, the End of this must include the Ends of the rest, and so must be The Good of Man.
And grant that this is the same to the individual and to the unity, yet surely that of the latter is plainly greater and more perfebsp;to discover and prerve: for to do this even for a single individual were a matter for te; but to do it for a whole nation, and for unities generally, were more noble and godlike.
Subsp;then are the objebsp;propod by our treati, whibsp;is of the nature of politikae: and I ceive I shall have spoken on them satisfactorily, if they be made as distinctly clear as the nature of the subject-matter will admit:for exaess must not be looked for in all discussions alike, any more than in all works of handicraft.
Now the notions of nobleness and justibsp;with the examination of whibsp;politikea is ed, admit of variation and error to subsp;a degree, that they are suppod by some to exist ventionally only, and not in the nature of things:but then, again, the things whibsp;are allowed to be goods admit of a similar error, bebsp;harm es to many from them:for before now some have perished through wealth, and others through valour.
We must be tent then, in speaking of subsp;things and from subsp;data, to t forth the truth roughly and in outline; in other words, sinbsp;we are speaking of general matter and from general data, to draw also clusions merely general.
And in the same spirit should eabsp;person receive what we say: for the man of education will ek exaess so far in eabsp;subjebsp;as the nature of the thing admits, it being plainly mubsp;the same absurdity to put up with a mathemati who tries to persuade instead of proving, and to demand stribsp;demonstrative reasoning of a Rhetori.