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but
no further.” “Excellent,” he said.
“Then is not this still another injunction that we should lay upon
our guardians, to keep guard in every way that the city shall not be too
small, nor great only in seeming, but that it shall be a sufficient city and
one?” “That behest will perhaps be an easy1 one for
them,” he said. “And still easier,2 haply,” I said,
“is this that we mentioned before3 when we said that if a degenerate offspring was
born to the guardians he must be sent away to the other classes,
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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