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over our storymakers, and what they do well we
must pass and what not, reject. And the stories on the accepted list we will
induce nurses and mothers to tell to the children and so shape their souls
by these stories far rather than their bodies by their hands. But most of
the stories they now tell we must reject.” “What sort of
stories?” he said. “The example of the greater
stories,” I said, “will show us the lesser also. For
surely the pattern must be the same and the greater and the less
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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