by our Guardians; and true Courage will be engrained in the hearts of our soldiers by law and education; and Temperance will be that social harmony pervading the State, and making all the citizens to be of one mind, like strings attempered to one scale. But where is Justice? Here at our feet, after all, for it can be nothing else than our original principle of division of labour: for a man is just when he does his own business, and does not meddle with his neighbour's.
And, returning to Man, we shall also find three parts in his soul corresponding to the three classes in our State. Reason, which should rule; Desire, which should obey; and Passion,[1] which is properly the ally of reason, and is restrained by it as a dog is restrained by a shepherd. We shall also find the same cardinal virtues in the man as in the State.
The just man will live uprightly, and will reduce all the elements of his soul to unison and harmony; and as to the original question "whether injustice, if undetected, pays in this life?" we may answer that it is a moral disease—and that, as in the body, so in the soul, if the constitution is ruined, life will not be worth having.
Then Socrates lays down the details of the system of Communism which he proposes to carry out in his State. "Following further our comparison of sheep-
- ↑ There is no English equivalent for the Greek word thumos—which combines the several meanings which we express in the words spirit, passion, honour, anger, all in one.
