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neither can the same men be actors for tragedies and
comedies1—and all these are imitations, are they not?”
“Yes, imitations.” “And to still smaller
coinage2 than this, in my opinion, Adeimantus, proceeds the
fractioning of human faculty, so as to be incapable of imitating many things
or of doing the things themselves of which the imitations are
likenesses.” “Most true,” he
replied.“If, then, we are to
maintain our original principle, that our guardians, released from all other
crafts,
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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