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The friction of the two when rubbed together may possibly strike

a light in which justice will shine forth, and the vision which

is then revealed we will fix in our souls.

That will be in regular course; let us do as you say.

I proceeded to ask: When two things, a greater and less, are

called by the same name, are they like or unlike in so far as

they are called the same?

Like, he replied.

The just man then, if we regard the idea of justice only, will be

like the just State?

He will.

And a State was thought by us to be just when the three classes

in the State severally did their own business; and also thought

to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain other

affections and qualities of these same classes?

True, he said.

And so of the individual; we may assume that he has the same

three principles in his own soul which are found in the State;

and he may be rightly described in the same terms, because he is

affected in the same manner?

Certainly, he said.