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When anyone says that sort of thing
about the gods, we shall be wroth with him, we will refuse him a chorus,
neither will we allow teachers to use him for the education of the young if
our guardians are to be god-fearing men and god-like in so far as that is
possible for humanity.” “By all means,” he
said, “I accept these norms and would use them as canons and
laws.”
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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