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in our states or those whom we now call
our kings and rulers take to the pursuit of philosophy seriously and
adequately, and there is a conjunction of these two things, political power
and philosophic intelligence, while the motley horde of the natures who at
present pursue either apart from the other are compulsorily excluded, there
can be no cessation of troubles, dear Glaucon, for our states, nor, I fancy,
for the human race either. Nor, until this happens, will this constitution
which we have been expounding in theory
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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