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and the poor man is excluded.” “I
understand,” said he. “Then, is not the first thing to
speak of how democracy passes over into this?”
“Yes.” “And truly,” said I,
“the manner of the change is plain even to the proverbial blind
man.1” “How so?” “That
treasure-house2
which each possesses filled with gold destroys that polity; for first they
invent ways of expenditure for themselves and pervert the laws to this end,
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