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And, in my humble opinion, very satisfactorily discovered, he

replied.

Again, I said, there is no difficulty in seeing the nature of

courage, and in what part that quality resides which gives the

name of courageous to the State.

How do you mean?

Why, I said, every one who calls any State courageous or

cowardly, will be thinking of the part which fights and goes out

to war on the State's behalf.

No one, he replied, would ever think of any other.

The rest of the citizens may be courageous or may be cowardly,

but their courage or cowardice will not, as I conceive, have the

effect of making the city either the one or the other.

Certainly not.

The city will be courageous in virtue of a portion of herself

which preserves under all circumstances that opinion about the

nature of things to be feared and not to be feared in which our

legislator educated them; and this is what you term courage.

I should like to hear what you are saying once more, for I do not

think that I perfectly understand you.