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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: operation which needs the instrumentality of man; but most of all,
perhaps, in agriculture. Not that I would maintain that it is a thing
to be lightly learnt by a glance of the eye, or hearsay fashion, as a
tale that is told. Far from it, I assert that he who is to have this
power has need of education; he must have at bottom a good natural
disposition; and, what is greatest of all, he must be himself a god-
like being.[15] For if I rightly understand this blessed gift, this
faculty of command over willing followers, by no means is it, in its
entirety, a merely human quality, but it is in part divine. It is a
gift plainly given to those truly initiated[16] in the mystery of
self-command. Whereas despotism over unwilling slaves, the heavenly
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