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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: for the art which makes and the art which plays on the lyre differ widely
from one another. Am I not right?
He agreed.
And clearly we do not want the art of the flute-maker; this is only another
of the same sort?
He assented.
But suppose, I said, that we were to learn the art of making speeches--
would that be the art which would make us happy?
I should say, no, rejoined Cleinias.
And why should you say so? I asked.
I see, he replied, that there are some composers of speeches who do not
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