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And the country which was enough to support the original

inhabitants will be too small now, and not enough?

Quite true.

Then a slice of our neighbours' land will be wanted by us for

pasture and tillage, and they will want a slice of ours, if, like

ourselves, they exceed the limit of necessity, and give

themselves up to the unlimited accumulation of wealth?

That, Socrates, will be inevitable.

And so we shall go to war, Glaucon. Shall we not?

Most certainly, he replied.

Then without determining as yet whether war does good or harm,

thus much we may affirm, that now we have discovered war to be

derived from causes which are also the causes of almost all the

evils in States, private as well as public.

Undoubtedly.

And our State must once more enlarge; and this time the

enlargement will be nothing short of a whole army, which will

have to go out and fight with the invaders for all that we have,

as well as for the things and persons whom we were describing

above.