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Then we must enlarge our borders; for the original healthy State

is no longer sufficient. Now will the city have to fill and swell

with a multitude of callings which are not required by any

natural want; such as the whole tribe of hunters and actors, of

whom one large class have to do with forms and colours; another

will be the votaries of music-poets and their attendant train of

rhapsodists, players, dancers, contractors; also makers of divers

kinds of articles, including women's dresses. And we shall want

more servants. Will not tutors be also in request, and nurses wet

and dry, tirewomen and barbers, as well as confectioners and

cooks; and swineherds, too, who were not needed and therefore had

no place in the former edition of our State, but are needed now?

They must not be forgotten: and there will be animals of many

other kinds, if people eat them.

Certainly.

And living in this way we shall have much greater need of

physicians than before?

Much greater.