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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: being of supreme utility, so sweet a craft to exercise, so rich in
beauty, so acceptable alike to gods and men, the art of husbandry may
further fairly claim to be the easiest of all the arts to learn? Noble
I name it! this, at any rate, the epithet we give to animals which,
being beautiful and large and useful, are also gentle towards the race
of man.[6]
[5] Or, "Listen, then, and whilst I recount to you at once the loving-
kindness of this art, to man the friendliest."
[6] Schenkl regards this sentence as an interpolation. For the epithet
{gennaios} applied to the dog see "Cyrop." I. iv. 15, 21;
"Hunting," iv. 7.
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