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perform each their own
task—he will be a just man and one who minds his own
affair.” “We must indeed remember,” he said.
“Does it not belong to the rational part to rule, being wise and
exercising forethought in behalf of the entire soul, and to the principle of
high spirit to be subject to this and its ally?”
“Assuredly.” “Then is it not, as we said,1 the blending of
music and gymnastics that will render them concordant, intensifying
1 Cf. 411 E, 412 A.
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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