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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: enjoy, obedience is the greatest. Since, as they could not but reason,
the greater the power with which men fence about authority, the
greater the fascination it will exercise upon the mind of the citizen,
to the enforcement of obedience.
[1] See Grote, "H. G." v. 516; "Mem." III. v. 18.
[2] Or, reading after L. Dindorf, {eutaxian}, "this world-renowned
orderliness."
[3] Or, "from these facts."
[4] Or, "It was only natural that these same . . ."
[5] Or, "helped." See Aristot. "Pol." v. 11, 3; ii. 9, 1 (Jowett, ii.
224); Plut. "Lycurg." 7, 29; Herod. i. 65; Muller, "Dorians," iii.
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