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(4) The Laws may be said to have more the nature of a sermon, the

Republic of a poem; the one is more religious, the other more

intellectual.

(5) Many theories of Plato, such as the doctrine of ideas, the

government of the world by philosophers, are not found in the

Laws; the immortality of the soul is first mentioned in xii; the

person of Socrates has altogether disappeared. The community of

women and children is renounced; the institution of common or

public meals for women (Laws) is for the first time introduced

(Ar. Pol.).

(6) There remains in the Laws the old enmity to the poets, who

are ironically saluted in high-flown terms, and, at the same

time, are peremptorily ordered out of the city, if they are not

willing to submit their poems to the censorship of the

magistrates (Rep.).