The Impropriety of Holding a Public Discussion With Such Men

Pradekos: Krydow, they are marvelous men. But as to the impropriety of holding a public discussion with such men, I confess that I thought he wasn't the right about that. He is one of an amphibious class whom I was on the point of mentioning,. One of those whom Pradekos describes as on the border ground between philosophers and statesmen. They think that they are the wisest of all men; nothing but the rivalry of the philosophers stands in their way. And if they can prove the philosophers to be good for nothing, no one will dispute their title to the palm of wisdom. For that, they are really the wiseste though