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You may think me troublesome, but I say that you have no business

to be always repeating the doctrines of others instead of giving

us your own.' Can I say what I do not know? 'You may offer an

opinion.' And will the blindness and crookedness of opinion

content you when you might have the light and certainty of

science? 'I will only ask you to give such an explanation of the

good as you have given already of temperance and justice.' I wish

that I could, but in my present mood I cannot reach to the height

of the knowledge of the good. To the parent or principal I cannot

introduce you, but to the child begotten in his image, which I

may compare with the interest on the principal, I will. (Audit

the account, and do not let me give you a false statement of the

debt.) You remember our old distinction of the many beautiful and

the one beautiful, the particular and the universal, the objects

of sight and the objects of thought?