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and have all things in every way, so far as
possible, in common, and that so doing they will do what is for the best and
nothing that is contrary to female human nature1 in comparison with male or to their
natural fellowship with one another.” “I do admit
it,” he said.“Then,” I said, “is not the thing that it
remains to determine this, whether, namely, it is possible for such a
community to be brought about among men as it is in the other animals,2 and in what way it is
possible?” “You have anticipated,” he said,
“the point I was about to raise.” “For3 as for their
wars,” I said,
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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