82/102 Hence he works it into the treatise on economy as well as here. In fact his expansion of the Socratic reflections into the _Economist_ has to do, I believe, with these reflections on state economy. Leisure for the grand duties which devolve on the lords of mankind. It doesn't seem to strike Xenophon that this rigid system of self-absorption in the higher selfhood of the social system might be destructive of individual life. Seems to me to show Xenophon struggling with the hard parts of the later Persian system. |