Again, it is by no means easy for one man to superintend many
things; he will have to appoint a number of subordinates, and what
difference does it make whether these subordinates always existed or
were appointed by him because he needed theme If, as I said before,
the good man has a right to rule because he is better, still two
good men are better than one: this is the old saying, two going
together, and the prayer of Agamemnon,
Would that I had ten such councillors!
And at this day there are magistrates, for example judges, who have
authority to decide some matters which the law is unable to determine,
since no one doubts that the law would command and decide in the
best manner whatever it could. But some things can, and other things
cannot, be comprehended under the law, and this is the origin of the
nexted question whether the best law or the best man should rule.
For matters of detail about which men deliberate cannot be included in
legislation. Nor does any one deny that the decision of such matters
must be left to man, but it is argued that there should be many
judges, and not one only. For every ruler who has been trained by
the law judges well; and it would surely seem strange that a person
should see better with two eyes, or hear better with two ears, or
act better with two hands or feet, than many with many; indeed, it
is already the practice of kings to make to themselves many eyes and
ears and hands and feet.
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