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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: rekindle in the hearts of our countrymen[8] the old fires--the
passionate longing for antique valour, for the glory and the wellbeing
of the days of old.
[8] Reading {anerasthenai}, Schneider's emendation of the vulg.
{aneristhenai}.
Well (proceeded Socrates), supposing we wished them to lay claim to
certain material wealth now held by others, we could not better
stimulate them to lay hands on the objects coveted than by showing
them that these were ancestral possessions[9] to which they had a
natural right. But since our object is that they should set their
hearts on virtuous pre-eminence, we must prove to them that such
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