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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: Soc. What, then, if I exhibit to you a third contrast, which bears on
the condition of domestic slaves? On the one side you shall see them
fettered hard and fast, as I may say, and yet for ever breaking their
chains and running away. On the other side the slaves are loosed, and
free to move, but for all that, they choose to work, it seems; they
are constant to their masters. I think you will admit that I here
point out another function of economy[4] worth noting.
[4] Or, "economical result."
Crit. I do indeed--a feature most noteworthy.
Soc. Or take, again, the instance of two farmers engaged in
cultivating farms[5] as like as possible. The one had never done
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