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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: deed and word?" And below: Soc. "And the women too, Meno, call
good men divine; and the Spartans, when they praise a good man,
say, 'that he is a divine man'" (Jowett). Arist. "Eth. N." vii. 1:
"That virtue which transcends the human, and which is of an heroic
or godlike type, such as Priam, in the poems of Homer, ascribes to
Hector, when wishing to speak of his great goodness:
Not woman-born seemed he, but sprung from gods."
And below: "And exactly as it is a rare thing to find a man of
godlike nature--to use the expression of the Spartans, 'a godlike
man,' which they apply to those whom they expressively admire--so,
too, brutality is a type of character rarely found among men"
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