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Stranger

Str. Yes, it is very plausible; for they say that if anyone has anything better than the old laws to offer, he must first persuade the state, and then he may make his laws, but not otherwise. 5

Younger Socrates

Y. Soc. And is that not right?

Stranger

Str. Perhaps. But suppose a man does not use persuasion, but makes an improvement by force. What is this force to be called? Answer me—or, no, not yet; first answer in reference to what we were talking of before.

Younger Socrates

Y. Soc. What do you mean?

Stranger

Str. Suppose a physician who has right knowledge of his profession does not persuade, but forces, his patient, whether man, woman, or child, to do the better thing, though it be contrary to the written precepts, what will such violence be called? The last name in the world to call it would be unscientific and baneful error, as the phrase is, would it not? And the patient so forced might rightly say anything else rather than that he had been treated in a baneful or unscientific way by the physicians who used force upon him.

Younger Socrates

Y. Soc. Very true. 10

Stranger

Str. But what can we call the unscientific error in the field of statesmanship? Is it not baseness and evil and injustice?

Younger Socrates

Y. Soc. Certainly.