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Now the first and greatest of necessities is food, which is the

condition of life and existence.

Certainly.

The second is a dwelling, and the third clothing and the like.

True.

And now let us see how our city will be able to supply this great

demand: We may suppose that one man is a husbandman, another a

builder, some one else a weaver-shall we add to them a shoemaker,

or perhaps some other purveyor to our bodily wants?

Quite right.

The barest notion of a State must include four or five men.

Clearly.