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And we agreed that this larger thing is the city, and so
we constructed the best city in our power, well knowing that in the
good1 city it would of
course be found. What, then, we thought we saw there we must refer back to
the individual and, if it is confirmed, all will be well. But if something
different manifests itself in the individual, we will return again
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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