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it may sometimes happen that a golden
father would beget a silver son and that a golden offspring would come from
a silver sire and that the rest would in like manner be born of one another.
So that the first and chief injunction that the god lays upon the rulers is
that of nothing elseThe phrasing of this
injunction recalls Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, in fine:
“I'll fear no other thing/ So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's
ring.” The securing of disinterested capacity in the rulers is
the pons asinorum of political theory. Plato constructs
his whole state for this end. Cf. Introduction p. xv. Aristotle,
Politics
1262 b 27, raises the obvious objection that
the tra