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Yes, he said; that is just what they are doing.

I conceive, I said, that the true legislator will not trouble

himself with this class of enactments whether concerning laws or

the constitution either in an ill-ordered or in a well-ordered

State; for in the former they are quite useless, and in the

latter there will be no difficulty in devising them; and many of

them will naturally flow out of our previous regulations.

What, then, he said, is still remaining to us of the work of

legislation?

Nothing to us, I replied; but to Apollo, the God of Delphi, there

remains the ordering of the greatest and noblest and chiefest

things of all.

Which are they? he said.