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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: readiness to learn that to which the attention was directed; a power
of retaining in the memory the lessons learnt; and a passionate
predilection for those studies in particular which serve to good
administration of a house or of a state,[2] and in general to the
proper handling of man and human affairs. Such beings, he maintained,
needed only to be educated[3] to become not only happy themselves and
happy administrators of their private households, but to be capable of
rendering other human beings as states or individuals happy also.
[1] Or, "not excellence of body in respect of beauty, but of the soul
as regards virtue; and this good natural disposition might be
detected by the readiness of its possessor to learn," etc. Cf.
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