صفحة 892 من 1391

We mean our guardians to be true saviours and not the destroyers

of the State, whereas our opponent is thinking of peasants at a

festival, who are enjoying a life of revelry, not of citizens who

are doing their duty to the State. But, if so, we mean different

things, and he is speaking of something which is not a State. And

therefore we must consider whether in appointing our guardians we

would look to their greatest happiness individually, or whether

this principle of happiness does not rather reside in the State

as a whole. But if the latter be the truth, then the guardians

and auxiliaries, and all others equally with them, must be

compelled or induced to do their own work in the best way. And

thus the whole State will grow up in a noble order, and the

several classes will receive the proportion of happiness which

nature assigns to them.

I think that you are quite right.

I wonder whether you will agree with another remark which occurs

to me.

What may that be?