[459d]
for the benefit1 of their
subjects. We said, I believe, that the use of that sort of thing was in the
category of medicine.” “And that was right,”
he said. “In our marriages, then, and the procreation of children,
it seems there will be no slight need of this kind of
‘right.'” “How so?” “It
follows from our former admissions,” I said, “that the
best men must cohabit with the best women in as many cases as possible and
the worst with the worst in the fewest,
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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