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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: departments of state are not one and the same. But one class governs
the inhabitants proper including the workers of the soil, and collects
the tribute from them, another is in command of the armed garrisons.
If the commandant[9] protects the country insufficiently, the civil
governor of the population, who is in charge also of the productive
works, lodges accusation against the commandant to the effect that the
inhabitants are prevented working through deficiency of protection. Or
if again, in spite of peace being secured to the works of the land by
the military governor, the civil authority still presents a territory
sparse in population and untilled, it is the commandant's turn to
accuse the civil ruler. For you may take it as a rule, a population
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