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rules soul with soul and it is not
allowable for a soul to have been bred from youth up among evil souls and to
have grown familiar with them, and itself to have run the gauntlet of every
kind of wrong-doing and injustice so as quickly to infer from itself the
misdeeds of others as it might diseases in the body, but it must have been
inexperienced in evil natures and uncontaminated by them while young, if it
is to be truly fair and good and judge soundly of justice. For which cause
the better sort seem to be simple-minded in youth and are easily deceived by
the wicked,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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