And does not this seem to put us in the right way? Just remark, that the body
which is in health requires neither medical nor any other aid, but is well
enough; and the healthy man has no love of the physician, because he is in
health.
He has none.
But the sick loves him, because he is sick?
Certainly.
And sickness is an evil, and the art of medicine a good and useful thing?
Yes.
But the human body, regarded as a body, is neither good nor evil?
True.
And the body is compelled by reason of disease to court and make friends of
the art of medicine?
Yes.
Then that which is neither good nor evil becomes the friend of good, by reason
of the presence of evil?
So we may infer.
And clearly this must have happened before that which was neither good nor
evil had become altogether corrupted with the element of evil-if itself had
become evil it would not still desire and love the good; for, as we were
saying, the evil cannot be the friend of the good.
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