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be able to do. Opinion is halfway between knowledge and ignorance and relates to things which are relative so that in one aspect they possess a character and in another aspect want it. The knowledge he would haeg to hold thouh he does not say so relates exclusively to things which it is impossible not to know perfectly. A philosopher as he understands it is a man who is in love with truisms. Of course he holds that philosophers alone are fit to be the defenders of the state. The philosopher loves knowledge of the eternal verities not subject to gereration and corruption. A very narrow notio. A narrow mind was Plato. The is furthermore a lover of all true being. They are lovers of truth. And not contenually to give to wake and his own notions true like Plato. He will not care for carnal pleasures. There is ont meanness in him. He has to much dignity [foreign text] to care much for human life. He cannont be dishonest. He must love to learn How can that be if true knowledge relates to that