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applied as we described will effect.”
“Surely.” “Then the institution we proposed is
not only possible but the best for the state.” “That is
so.” “The women of the guardians, then, must strip,
since they will be clothed with virtue as a garment,1 and must take their part with the men in war
and the other duties of civic guardianship and have no other occupation. But
in these very duties lighter tasks must be assigned to the women than to the
men
1 Cf. Rousseau, Lettre à d'Alembert, “Couvertes de l'honnêteté publique.”
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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