78 PREJUDICE.

could be done, the vote of every citizen was
to be taken.

‘It was the custom for the Greeks, in:those
days to vote for the banishment of a person by
handing in tiles, or shells, on which the name
of the accused was inscribed., An ignorant
fellow, at the time of voting, seeing Aristides
near, and not knowing himy but judging
him to be a man of education, and capablem
of writing, went up, and asked him to write
the name of Aristides on his tile.

Aristides did as he was requested, and
having handed the tile to the man,, asked
him, as a matter of curiosity, why he wished
to banish Aristides. “ Because,” said the
freeman, “J am tired of hearing him called
_ the Just.”

Here then, we see that a man, even acting _
in the high and responsible capacity of a Z
freeman, indulges an unreasonable dislike,

a prejudice,—he even allows a hatred o
excellence*to influence “him, when he is
exercising a trust which involves the happi-
ness of the whole community.

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