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BOOK II
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C2.5) Worthy of Adam Smith.

Xenophon has bump of economy strongly developed; he resembles J.P.[*] in that respect.

The economic methodism, the mosaic interbedding, the architectonic structure of it all, a part and parcel of Xenophon's genius.

Was Alexander's army a highly-organised, spiritually and materially built-up, vitalised machine of this sort?
What light does Arrian, that younger Xenophon, throw upon it?
[* "J.

P." = John Percival, Bishop of Hereford (the writer of the Introduction to this volume), at the time the notes were written Headmaster of Clifton College .-- F.M.S.] C1.25.Camaraderie encouraged and developed through a sense of equality and fraternity, the life _au grand jour_ in common, producing a common consciousness (cf.


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