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“Let us preserve the analogy, then, and assign them a generation
and breeding answering to it, and see if it suits us or not.”
“In what way?” he said. “In this. Do we expect
the females of watch-dogs to join in guarding what the males guard and to
hunt with them and share all their pursuits or do we expect the females to
stay indoors as being incapacitated by the bearing and the breeding of the
whelps while the males toil and have all the care of the flock?”
“They have all things in common,”
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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