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Education, I said, and nurture: If our citizens are well

educated, and grow into sensible men, they will easily see their

way through all these, as well as other matters which I omit;

such, for example, as marriage, the possession of women and the

procreation of children, which will all follow the general

principle that friends have all things in common, as the proverb

says.

That will be the best way of settling them.

Also, I said, the State, if once started well, moves with

accumulating force like a wheel. For good nurture and education

implant good constitutions, and these good constitutions taking

root in a good education improve more and more, and this

improvement affects the breed in man as in other animals.

Very possibly, he said.