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And the individual will be acknowledged by us to be just in the

same way in which the State is just?

That follows, of course.

We cannot but remember that the justice of the State consisted in

each of the three classes doing the work of its own class?

We are not very likely to have forgotten, he said.

We must recollect that the individual in whom the several

qualities of his nature do their own work will be just, and will

do his own work?

Yes, he said, we must remember that too.

And ought not the rational principle, which is wise, and has the

care of the whole soul, to rule, and the passionate or spirited

principle to be the subject and ally?

Certainly.

And, as we were saying, the united influence of music and

gymnastic will bring them into accord, nerving and sustaining the

reason with noble words and lessons, and moderating and soothing

and civilizing the wildness of passion by harmony and rhythm?

Quite true, he said.