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The mean state which steers clear of Exaggeration has pretty much

the same object-matter as the last we described, and likewise has

no name appropriated to it. Still it may be as well to go over

these states: because, in the first place, by a particular

discussion of each we shall be better acquainted with the general

subject of moral character, and next we shall be the more

convinced that the virtues are mean states by seeing that this is

universally the case.

In respect then of living in society, those who carry on this

intercourse with a view to pleasure and pain have been already

spoken of; we will now go on to speak of those who are True or

False, alike in their words and deeds and in the claims which

they advance.