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Then again, it is not Master of Science (i.e. of the superior

part of the Soul), just as neither is the healing art Master of

health; for it does not make use of it, but looks how it may come

to be: so it commands for the sake of it but does not command it.

The objection is, in fact, about as valid as if a man should say

πολιτικὴ governs the gods because it gives orders about all

things in the communty.

APPENDIX

On ἐπισπήμη, from I. Post. Analyt. chap. i. and ii.

(Such parts only are translated as throw light on the Ethics.)