we compelled to make laws at all? The reason of this has next to be

investigated.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.

STRANGER: Let me ask, whether you have not meetings for gymnastic

contests in your city, such as there are in other cities, at which men

compete in running, wrestling, and the like?

YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes; they are very common among us.

STRANGER: And what are the rules which are enforced on their pupils by

professional trainers or by others having similar authority? Can you

remember?

YOUNG SOCRATES: To what do you refer?

STRANGER: The training-masters do not issue minute rules for

individuals, or give every individual what is exactly suited to his

constitution; they think that they ought to go more roughly to work, and

to prescribe generally the regimen which will benefit the majority.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.

STRANGER: And therefore they assign equal amounts of exercise to them

all; they send them forth together, and let them rest together from

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