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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: YOUNG SOCRATES: Of course.
STRANGER: Again, a large household may be compared to a small state:--will
they differ at all, as far as government is concerned?
YOUNG SOCRATES: They will not.
STRANGER: Then, returning to the point which we were just now discussing,
do we not clearly see that there is one science of all of them; and this
science may be called either royal or political or economical; we will not
quarrel with any one about the name.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly not.
STRANGER: This too, is evident, that the king cannot do much with his
hands, or with his whole body, towards the maintenance of his empire,
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