Here are the opening lines of today’s reading, which we parse in great detail: “Since we consider knowledge to be something beautiful and honored, and one sort more so than another, either on account of its precision or because it is about better and more wondrous things, on both these accounts we should with good reason rank the inquiry about the soul among the primary studies. And it seems that acquaintance with it contributes greatly toward all truth and especially toward the truth about nature, since the soul is in some way the governing source of all living things.” If a slow, careful discussion of such dense thoughts appeals to you, then give this one a listen. (You know who you are!) If not, then go about your dreary business.