49/53 Xenophon's own humour shines out. T.E.B.[*] could do it, or Socrates, without dullness or seeming to preach. There is a crispness in the voice which is anti-pedantic. E.B." = T.E.Brown, the Manx poet, at that time a colleague of Mr.Dakyns at Clifton .-- F.M.S.] C2.19.Cyrus recognises the ideal principle of co-operation and collective ownership. Xenophon, Economist, ahead of the moderns. |