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'In that case,' said he, 'he will never be a politician.' Yes,

but he will, in his own city; though probably not in his native

country, unless by some divine accident. 'You mean that he will

be a citizen of the ideal city, which has no place upon earth.'

But in heaven, I replied, there is a pattern of such a city, and

he who wishes may order his life after that image. Whether such a

state is or ever will be matters not; he will act according to

that pattern and no other...

The most noticeable points in the 9th Book of the Republic

are:-(1) the account of pleasure; (2) the number of the interval

which divides the king from the tyrant; (3) the pattern which is

in heaven.