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shall we not?”
“Yes.” “Doctors, too, are something whose
services1 we shall be much more likely to
require if we live thus than as before?”
“Much.”“And
the territory, I presume, that was then sufficient to feed the then
population, from being adequate will become too small. Is that so or
not?” “It is.” “Then we shall have
to cut out a cantle2 of our neighbor's land if we are to have enough for pasture and
ploughing, and they in turn of ours if they too abandon themselves to the
unlimited3 acquisition of wealth,
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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