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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: And, pray, how do you conduct your own case? (I asked).[28]
[28] See "Mem." III. vii. 4; Plat. "Euth." 3 E.
Not so ill (he answered), when truth and interest correspond, but when
they are opposed, Socrates, I have no skill to make the worse appear
the better argument.[29]
[29] See Plat. "Apol." 19-23 D; Aristoph. "Clouds," 114 foll.
Perhaps you have no skill, Ischomachus, to make black white or
falsehood truth (said I).[30]
[30] Or, "It may well be, Ischomachus, you cannot manufacture
falsehood into truth." Lit. "Like enough you cannot make an
untruth true."
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