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(7) Though the work is in most respects inferior, there are a few

passages in the Laws, such as the honour due to the soul, the

evils of licentious or unnatural love, the whole of Book x.

(religion), the dishonesty of retail trade, and bequests, which

come more home to us, and contain more of what may be termed the

modern element in Plato than almost anything in the Republic.

The relation of the two works to one another is very well given:

(1) by Aristotle in the Politics from the side of the Laws:-