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[678a] to their herdsmen?

Clinias
Yes.

Athenian
And as to the matters with which our present discourse is concerned—States and statecraft and legislation,—do we think they could have retained any memory whatsoever, broadly speaking, of such matters?

Clinias
By no means.

Athenian
So from those men, in that situation, there has sprung the whole of our present order—States and constitutions, arts and laws, with a great amount both of evil and of good?

Clinias
How do you mean?

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