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Even so, as I maintain, neither we nor our guardians, whom we

have to educate, can ever become musical until we and they know

the essential forms of temperance, courage, liberality,

magnificence, and their kindred, as well as the contrary forms,

in all their combinations, and can recognise them and their

images wherever they are found, not slighting them either in

small things or great, but believing them all to be within the

sphere of one art and study.

Most assuredly.

And when a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and

the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights

to him who has an eye to see it?

The fairest indeed.

And the fairest is also the loveliest?

That may be assumed.

And the man who has the spirit of harmony will be most in love

with the loveliest; but he will not love him who is of an

inharmonious soul?