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And so in gymnastics, if a man takes violent exercise and is a

great feeder, and the reverse of a great student of music and

philosophy, at first the high condition of his body fills him

with pride and spirit, and he becomes twice the man that he was.

Certainly.

And what happens? if he do nothing else, and holds no converse

with the Muses, does not even that intelligence which there may

be in him, having no taste of any sort of learning or enquiry or

thought or culture, grow feeble and dull and blind, his mind

never waking up or receiving nourishment, and his senses not

being purged of their mists?

True, he said.

And he ends by becoming a hater of philosophy, uncivilized, never

using the weapon of persuasion,-he is like a wild beast, all

violence and fierceness, and knows no other way of dealing; and

he lives in all ignorance and evil conditions, and has no sense

of propriety and grace.

That is quite true, he said.