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Stranger
First it binds the eternal part of their souls with a divine bond, to which that part is akin, and after the divine it binds the animal part of them with human bonds.Younger Socrates
Again I ask What do you mean?Stranger
I mean that really true and assured opinion about honor, justice, goodness and their opposites is divine, and when it arises in menÕs souls, it arises in a godlike race.Younger Socrates
That would be fitting, at any rate.Stranger
Do we not know, then, that the statesman and good lawgiver
First it binds the eternal part of their souls with a divine bond, to which that part is akin, and after the divine it binds the animal part of them with human bonds.Younger Socrates
Again I ask What do you mean?Stranger
I mean that really true and assured opinion about honor, justice, goodness and their opposites is divine, and when it arises in menÕs souls, it arises in a godlike race.Younger Socrates
That would be fitting, at any rate.Stranger
Do we not know, then, that the statesman and good lawgiver