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a quality which the philosophic
nature would yield? This if relaxed too far would be softer than is
desirable but if rightly trained gentle and orderly?”
“That is so.” “But our requirement, we
say,1 is that the
guardians should possess both natures.” “It
is.” “And must they not be harmoniously adjusted to one
another?” “Of course.” “And the soul
of the man thus attuned is sober and brave?”
1 Cf. 375 C. With Plato's doctrine of the two temperaments cf. the distinction of quick-wits and hard-wits in Ascham's Schoolmaster. Ascham is thinking of Plato, for he says: “Galen saith much music marreth men's manners; and Plato hath a notable place of the same thing in his book De rep., well marked also and excellently translated by Tully himself.
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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