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to our polity, because there is no
twofold or manifold man1 among us, since every man
does one thing.” “It is not suited.”
“And is this not the reason why such a city is the only one in
which we shall find the cobbler a cobbler and not a pilot in addition to his
cobbling, and the farmer a farmer and not a judge added to his farming, and
the soldier a soldier and not a money-maker in addition to his soldiery, and
so of all the rest?” “True,” he said.2 “If a man, then,
it seems,
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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