“they will send out into the fields, and they will take over the children,This is another of the passages in which Plato seems to lend support to revolutionaries. Cf. p. 71, note g. Cf. 752 C, where it is said that the children would accept the new laws if the parents would not. Cf. 415 D, and also p. 625, on 644 A and p. 638, on 813 D. There is some confusion in this passage between the inauguration and the normal conduct of the ideal state, and Wilamowitz, i. p. 439 calls the idea “ein hingeworfener Einfall.” But Plato always held that the reformer must have or make a clean slate. Cf. 501 A, 735 E. And he constantly emphasizes the supreme importance of education; 377 A-B, 423 E, 416 C, 641 B, 644 A-B, 752 C, 765 E-766 A, 788 C, 804 D. For παραλαβόντες Cf. 82 Eπαραλαβοῦσα. remove them from the manners and habits of their parents, and bring them up in their own customs and laws which will be such as we have described. This is the speediest and easiest way in which such a city and constitution as we have portrayed could be established and prosper and bring most benefit to the people