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and issues from
it unspoiled we must establish as ruler over our city and its guardian, and
bestow rewards upon him in life, and in death the allotment of the supreme
honors of burial-rites and other memorials. But the man of the other type we
must reject. Such,” said I, “appears to me, Glaucon, the
general notion of our selection and appointment of rulers and guardians as
sketched in outline, but not drawn out in detail.” “I
too,” he said, “think much the same.”
“Then would it not truly
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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