it did not much matter whether his odds were slightly higher or slightly lower than those of his fellow-citizens (since in any case they were quite small). It does not follow, however, that the difference in the distribution of offices achieved by one or the other of the two procedures was inconsequential. It is not, for example, a matter of indifference that a governing assembly contains more lawyers than farmers, even if it is a matter of relative indifference to each individual farmer that a lawyer should have more chance than himself of entering assembly