YOUNG SOCRATES: Of course.

STRANGER: Very good; and to what science do we assign the power of

persuading a multitude by a pleasing tale and not by teaching?

YOUNG SOCRATES: That power, I think, must clearly be assigned to

rhetoric.

STRANGER: And to what science do we give the power of determining

whether we are to employ persuasion or force towards any one, or to

refrain altogether?

YOUNG SOCRATES: To that science which governs the arts of speech and

persuasion.

STRANGER: Which, if I am not mistaken, will be politics?

YOUNG SOCRATES: Very good.

STRANGER: Rhetoric seems to be quickly distinguished from politics,

being a different species, yet ministering to it.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.

STRANGER: But what would you think of another sort of power or science?

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