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Yes, I said; a reward which a man might fairly expect who never

understood that, if Asclepius did not instruct his descendants in

valetudinarian arts, the omission arose, not from ignorance or

inexperience of such a branch of medicine, but because he knew

that in all well-ordered states every individual has an

occupation to which he must attend, and has therefore no leisure

to spend in continually being ill. This we remark in the case of

the artisan, but, ludicrously enough, do not apply the same rule

to people of the richer sort.

How do you mean? he said.