The Republic

Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate descendants. Like Dante or Bunyan, he has a revelation of another life; like Bacon, he is profoundly impressed with the unity of knowledge;

the tale of Troy and the legend of Arthur;

For let me tell you, that the more the

more than human virtue is needed to save a man, and that he only praises justice who is incapable of injustice.

back;—might is still right, but the might is the weakness of the many combined against the strength of the few.

For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many. The

Had we been taught in early youth the power of justice and injustice inherent in the soul, and unseen by any human or divine eye, we should not have needed others to be our guardians, but every one would have been the guardian of himself.

First ethics, then politics—this is the order of ideas to us; the reverse is the order of history.

Thrasymachus—not right is the interest of the stronger, but right is the necessity of the weaker.