works which she deems necessary for making the web.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Quite true.

STRANGER: In like manner, the royal science appears to me to be the

mistress of all lawful educators and instructors, and having this

queenly power, will not permit them to train men in what will produce

characters unsuited to the political constitution which she desires to

create, but only in what will produce such as are suitable. Those

which have no share of manliness and temperance, or any other virtuous

inclination, and, from the necessity of an evil nature, are violently

carried away to godlessness and insolence and injustice, she gets rid of

by death and exile, and punishes them with the greatest of disgraces.

YOUNG SOCRATES: That is commonly said.

STRANGER: But those who are wallowing in ignorance and baseness she bows

under the yoke of slavery.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Quite right.

STRANGER: The rest of the citizens, out of whom, if they have education,

something noble may be made, and who are capable of being united by the

statesman, the kingly art blends and weaves together; taking on the one

hand those whose natures tend rather to courage, which is the stronger

element and may be regarded as the warp, and on the other hand those

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