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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: II
The first efforts of a youth emerging from boyhood should be directed
to the institution of the chase, after which he should come to the
rest of education, provided he have the means and with an eye to the
same; if his means be ample, in a style worthy of the profit to be
derived; or, if they be scant, let him at any rate contribute
enthusiasm, in nothing falling short of the power he possesses.
What are the aids and implements of divers sorts with which he who
would enter on this field must equip himself? These and the theory of
each in particular I will now explain. With a view to success in the
work, forewarned is forearmed. Nor let such details be looked upon as
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