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he said. “And is not the cause of this to be found in the fact
that each of the principles within him does its own work in the matter of
ruling and being ruled?” “Yes, that and nothing
else.” “Do you still, then, look for justice to be
anything else than this potency which provides men and cities of this
sort?” “No, by heaven,” he said, “I
do not.”“Finished, then,
is our dream and perfected —the surmise we spoke of,1 that, by some Providence, at the very beginning of our
foundation of the state,
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