صفحة 186 من 1391

And now, at last, we have reached firm ground, and are able to

infer that the virtues of the State and of the individual are the

same. For wisdom and courage and justice in the State are

severally the wisdom and courage and justice in the individuals

who form the State. Each of the three classes will do the work of

its own class in the State, and each part in the individual soul;

reason, the superior, and passion, the inferior, will be

harmonized by the influence of music and gymnastic. The

counsellor and the warrior, the head and the arm, will act

together in the town of Mansoul, and keep the desires in proper

subjection. The courage of the warrior is that quality which

preserves a right opinion about dangers in spite of pleasures and

pains. The wisdom of the counsellor is that small part of the

soul which has authority and reason. The virtue of temperance is

the friendship of the ruling and the subject principles, both in

the State and in the individual.