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    Is there any one , O Melitus , who believes that there are human things , but does not believe that there are men ? Answer , O Athenians , and do not clamour . Does any one believe that there are thi ? igs relating to horses , but not believe that there are horses ? or that there are things relating to music , but not musicians ? Nobody , O best of men ; for if you will not answer , I will answer to you and to the judges . But answer the next question . Does any one believe that there are ( Jtaifjiovia ) things relating to daemons , but not believe in daemons ? M TVo .

    8 . How much good you have done , by answering with so much reluctance , and not until the judges obliged you . You say then , that I believe , and teach , that there are things relating to daemons , no matter whether new or old . I therefore , according to you , believe in things relating to daemons , and this you have sworn to in the indictment . But if I believe in the existence of things relating to daemons , I must needs believe in the existence of daemons : is it not so ? It is : for as you will not answer , I consider you as assenting . But do we not regard daemons as either gods or the offspring of gods ? Do we , or not ?

    M . Yes . 8 . Then if I believe in daemons , as you say ; and if daemons are a kind of gods , this is the riddle I said you were playing off upon us , saying that I , not believing in gods , do nevertheless believe in gods , since I believe in daemons . But if daemons are the offspring of the gods , by the nymphs , as they say , or in any other way , what human creature can believe that there exists offspring of gods , but no gods ? It would be as absurd as to believe that there exists offspring of horses and asses , namely mules , but that there are no horses or asses . It is impossible , O Melitus , that you can have brought such an accusation for any purpose but to try us , or because you could find nothing true to accuse me of . That you should be able to persuade any person in his senses that the same person can think that there are things belonging to daemons and gods , and yet no daemons , nor gods , nor

    demigods , is impossible . That ! am not guilty , O Athenians , according to the accusation of Melitus , does not seem to need much proof : what I have said is sufficient . But what I have already told you , that I am in much odium , and with many persons , you well know to be true . And this is what will pause my condemnation , if I be condemned : not Melitus nor Anytus , but the prejudice and calumny in the minds of the many : which has been the cause of condemnation to many other and good men , and will continue to be so , and there is no fear that I shall be the last . ( To be concluded in our next number !)

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    Plato ' s Dialogues ; the Apology of Socrates . 121

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1835, page 121, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2642/page/41/