Most of the things valued by the masses come under the categories of what is sustained by cohesion (minerals, timber, or natural growth (figs,vines, olives). What is valued by the slightly more advanced belongs to the class of things sustained by a principle of life, such as flocks and herds, or the bare ownership of a multitude of slaves. The things valued by yet more refined people are those sustained by the rational soul - not, however, reason as such, but reason expressed in craftsmanship or some other skill. But the man who fully esteems the soul as both rational and political no longer has any regard for those other things, but above all else keeps his one soul in a constant state of rational and social activity, and cooperates to that end with his like.
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