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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: knowledge)."
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Soc. (continuing). But may I ask, is the planting of trees[1] a
department in the art of husbandry?
[1] i.e. of fruit trees, the vine, olive, fig, etc.
Isch. Certainly it is.
Soc. How is it, then, that I can know about the processes of sowing
and at the same time have no knowledge about planting?
Isch. Is it so certain that you have no knowledge?
Soc. How can you ask me? when I neither know the sort of soil in which
to plant, nor yet the depth of hole[2] the plant requires, nor the
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