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But with the judge it is otherwise; since he governs mind by

mind; he ought not therefore to have been trained among vicious

minds, and to have associated with them from youth upwards, and

to have gone through the whole calendar of crime, only in order

that he may quickly infer the crimes of others as he might their

bodily diseases from his own self-consciousness; the honourable

mind which is to form a healthy judgment should have had no

experience or contamination of evil habits when young. And this

is the reason why in youth good men often appear to be simple,

and are easily practised upon by the dishonest, because they have

no examples of what evil is in their own souls.

Yes, he said, they are far too apt to be deceived.

Therefore, I said, the judge should not be young; he should have

learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and

long observation of the nature of evil in others: knowledge

should be his guide, not personal experience.