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for each
corresponding to this difference of nature?’
‘Certainly.’ ‘How, then, can you deny that you
are mistaken and in contradiction with yourselves when you turn around and
affirm that the men and the women ought to do the same thing, though their
natures are so far apart?’ Can you surprise me with an answer to
that question?” “Not easily on this sudden
challenge,” he replied: “but I will and do beg you to
lend your voice to the plea in our behalf, whatever it may be.”
“These and many similar difficulties, Glaucon,” said I,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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