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Younger Socrates

Y. Soc. There is no denying the truth of what you have just said.

Stranger

Str. And those other statements cannot be denied, either.

Younger Socrates

Y. Soc. What statements?

Stranger

Str. That no great number of men, whoever they may be, could ever acquire political science and be able to administer a state with wisdom, but our one right form of government must be sought in some small number or one person, and all other forms are merely, as we said before, more or less successful imitations of that. 5

Younger Socrates

Y. Soc. What do you mean by that? I did not understand about the imitations a little while ago, either.

Stranger

Str. And yet it is quite a serious matter if after stirring up this question we drop it and do not go on and show the error which is committed in relation to it nowadays.

Younger Socrates

Y. Soc. What is the error?

Stranger

Str. I will tell you what we must investigate; it is not at all familiar or easy to see, but let us try to grasp it nevertheless. Tell me this: Assuming that the form of government we have described is the only right form, don’t you see that the other forms must employ its written laws if they are to be preserved by doing that which is approved of nowadays, although it is not perfectly right?

Younger Socrates

Y. Soc. What is not perfectly right? 10