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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: accomplishments, which, however, they refuse to exercise, for the very
reason, as I take it, that they have no masters over them.
[18] "Eupatrids."
Soc. No masters over them! but how can that be if, in spite of their
prayers for prosperity and their desire to do what will bring them
good, they are still so sorely hindered in the exercise of their wills
by those that lord it over them?
Crit. And who, pray, are these lords that rule them and yet remain
unseen?
Soc. Nay, not unseen; on the contrary, they are very visible. And what
is more, they are the basest of the base, as you can hardly fail to
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