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Logic IV. 89.

[foreign text] 412B. The elders are to rule and of these the wisest and ablest. There must be a selection from among the other defenders of such men who have shown a live long zeal for the good of the state. They must have been closely watched to see that no influence has ever been able to swerve them from that line that conduct. Book III ends with an elaborate lie which is to be carefully inculcated. This is quite of a piece with Plato's endeavor to mark out beforehand just what the morals of the state are to be. Book IV begins by considering the advantage of not allowing the state to become too rich or great. No innovations or reforms are to be coundenanced. The matter of religion is to be left to Apollo of Delphi. The right constitution of state having this been ordered we are now to ask where is the righteousness in the arrangements 427D. The state imagined is supposed to be perfectly good [foreign text]. it is plain then that it is wise and brave and self controlled