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…showed last 75 words of 623 total…are reduced to writing, access is virtually impossible to control. The solution, argued Strauss, was to write in a way that would allow entry into the heart of the argument only to those who possess virtues of intellect and character adequate to the gravity of the issues broached therein. On the Straussian account, classical philosophical writing is a sword in the stone, a childproof medicine bottle cap designed to keep out the unworthy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**