en on his lips:
"I am in love with so and so"; and all the while it was obvious the
going-forth of his soul was not towards excellence of body in the bloom
of beauty, but rather towards faculties of the soul unfolding in virtue.
(1) And these "good natures" he detected by certain tokens: a readiness
to learn that to which the attention was directed; a power of retaining
in the memory the lessons learnt; and a passionate predilection for
those studies in particular which serve to good administration of a
house or of a state, (2) and in general to the proper handling of
man and human affairs. Such beings, he maintained, needed only to
be educated (3) to become not only happy themselves and happy
administrators of their private households, but to be capable of
rendering other human beings as states or individuals happy also.

(1) Or, "not excellence of body in respect of beauty, but of the soul
as regards virtue; and this good natural disposition might be
detected by the readiness of its possessor to learn," etc. Cf.
Plat. "Rep." 535 B.

(2) Cf. above, I. i. 7.

(3) Or, "A person of this type would, if educated, not only prove a
fortune-favoured individual himself and," etc. Al. Kuhner, "Eos,
qui ita instituti sunt, ut tales sint."

He had indeed a different way of dealing with different kinds of
people. (4) Those who thought they had good natural ability and despised
learning he instructed that the most highly-gifted nature stands most
in need of training and education; (5) and he would point out how in the
case of horses it is just the spirited and fiery thoroughbred which, if
properly broken in as a colt, will develop into a serviceable and superb
animal, but if left unbroken will turn out utterly intractable and good
for nothing. Or take the case of dogs: a puppy exhibiting that zest for
toil and eagerness to attack wild creatures which are the marks of high
breeding, (6) will, if well brought up, prove excellent for the chase or
for any other useful purpose; but neglect his education and he will turn
out a stupid, crazy brute, incapable of obeying the simplest command. It
is just the same with human beings; here also the youth of best natural
endowments--that is to say, possessing the most robust qualities of
spirit and a fixed determination to carry out whatever he has laid his
hand to--will, if trained and taught what it is right to do, prove a
superlatively good and useful man. He achieve