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Logic IV. 79
must originally have contained descriptions of the Aristocratic state and man. But these have been cut out owing to a more satisfactory account being contained in the subsequently written fourth book. He therefore begins with Timocracy (foreign text 545 C) the government by the honorable. Here comes one of the celebrated passages. Human fecundity will not be understood by a reasoning alloyed with sense 646 AB. There is a perfect number which has been a favorite subject for commentators. Let us pass it by. In the Timocracy honor will be paid to rulers, the military training will be maintained. All that is good. But instead of philosophers the rulers will be military men who will be two[fond?] of money and a spirit of contention and of ambition will prevail. That will be the evil side of such a government. The timocratic man is a man of self assertion, rough with slaves, counters to freement, but contentions not [cultured?]

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