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at the sun directly. Just so when anybody undertakes to practice dialect [foreign text] without any of the senses he by reason chases after the very essence which each one is and should he not give up until he gets by exact knowledge the very essence that is good [foreign text] he comes to the very goal of the known as the other does to that of the seen. Quite so says he what of it? Don't you call this proceeding dialectic? Of course. Tis she said I that is a freeing from the bonds and a turning from the shadows to the images and the light and a return from the cave to the sun and there it is still impossible to look at the minds and the plants and the light of the sun but only to judge by the divine reflections in water and by shadows on realities not however shadows of copies these shadows being cast by any other such light than the sun and this whole treatment of the arts we have gone through has this same power and restoration of the best [?] in the soul to the vision of the best [foreign text]