What the scientific Governor will do. He will aim at the formation of virtuous citizens. He will weave together the energetic virtues with the gentle virtues. Natural dissidence between them 272 If a man sins by excess of the energetic element, he is to be killed or banished: if of the gentle, he is to be made a slave. The Governor must keep up in the minds of the citizens an unanimous standard of ethical orthodoxy 272 Remarks--Sokratic Ideal--Title to govern mankind derived exclusively from scientific superiority in an individual person 273 Different ways in which this ideal is worked out by Plato and Xenophon. The man of speculation and the man of action _ib._ The theory in the Politikus is the contradiction to that theory which is assigned to Protagoras in the Protagoras 274 Points of the Protagorean theory--rests upon common sentiment 275 Counter-Theory in the Politikus. The exigencies of the Eleate in the Politikus go much farther than those of Protagoras 276 The Eleate complains that under the Protagorean theory no adverse criticism is allowed. The dissenter is either condemned to silence or punished _ib._ Intolerance at Athens, not so great as elsewhere. Plato complains of the assumption of infallibility in existing societies, but exacts it severely in that which he himself constructs 277 Theory of the Politikus--distinguished three gradations of polity. Gigantic individual force the worst 278 Comparison of the Politikus with the Republic. Points of analogy and difference 279 Comparison of the Politikus with the Kratylus. Dictatorial, constructive, science or art, common to both: applied in the former to social administration--in the latter to the formation and modification of names 281 Courage and Temperance are assumed in the Politikus. No notice taken of the doubts and difficulties raised in Lachês and Charmidês 282 Purpose of the difficulties in Plato's Dialogues of Search--To stimulate the intellect of the hearer. His exposition does not give solutions 284 CHAPTER XXXI. KRATYLUS. Persons and subjects of the dialogue Kratylus--Sokrates has no formed opinion, but is only a Searcher with the others 285 Argument of Sokrates against Hermogenes--all proceedings of nature are conducted according to fixed laws--speaking and naming among the rest 286 The name is a didactic instrument; fabricated by the law-giver upon the type of the Name-Form, and employed as well as appreciated, by the philosopher 287 Names have an intrinsic aptitude for signifying one thing and not another 289 Forms of Names, as well as Forms of things nameable--essence of the Nomen, to signify the Essence of its Nominatum _ib._ Exclusive competence of a privileged lawgiver, to discern these essences, and to apportion names rightly 290 Counter-Theory, which Sokrates here sets forth and impugns--the Protagorean doctrine--Homo Mensura 291