no one, friend or foe, worth any thing; he muſt carefully obſerve who is courageous, magnanimous, wiſe, rich, and of neceſſity he muſt be an enemy to all theſe, and lay ſnares, until he cleanſe the city of them. Thus he muſt live with wicked people, and be hated by them too, or not live at all; the more he is hated, the more guards he will want. But the worthy men being deſtroyed, the worſt muſt be his guards. What a bleſſed poſſeſſion! But this army of the tyrant, ſo beautiful, ſo numerous, and multiform, muſt be maintained. If there be any ſacred things in the city, theſe they will ſpend, and the people obliged to pay the lighter taxes. When theſe fail, he and his drunken companions and aſſociates, male and female, ſhall be maintained out of the paternal inheritance; and the people who have made the tyrant ſhall nouriſh him. If the people be enraged, and ſay that they did not make him to be ſlaves to his ſlaves, but that they might be ſet at liberty from the rich in the city, who are now called good and worthy men, and order him and his companions to be gone out of the city, as a father drives out of his houſe his ſon, with his tumultuary, drunken companions; then indeed the people ſhall know what a beaſt they are themſelves, and what a beaſt they have generated, hugged, and bred up. While they are the weaker, they attempt to drive out the ſtronger. The tyrant will ſtrip them of their armour. The people, defending themſelves againſt the ſmoke of ſlavery, have fallen into the fire of deſpotiſm; inſtead of that exceſſive and unſeaſonable liberty, embracing the moſt rigorous and wretched ſlavery of bondmen.—Thus, to ſpeak modeſtly, we have ſufficiently ſhewn how tyranny ariſes out of democracy, and what it is after it is riſen.
END Of THE EIGHTH BOOK.
