Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?
It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.