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we shall
need quite a number of others who are expert in maritime
business.” “Quite a number.”“But again, within the city itself how will they
share with one another the products of their labor? This was the very
purpose of our association and establishment of a state.”
“Obviously,” he said, “by buying and
selling.” “A market-place, then, and money as a
token1 for the purpose of exchange
will be the result of this.”
1 Aristotle ads that the medium of exchange must of itself have value (Politics 1257 a 36).
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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