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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: all sorts of refinements and varieties of pleasure--then, as you may
imagine, the change will begin of the oligarchical principle within him
into the democratical?
Inevitably.
And as in the city like was helping like, and the change was effected by an
alliance from without assisting one division of the citizens, so too the
young man is changed by a class of desires coming from without to assist
the desires within him, that which is akin and alike again helping that
which is akin and alike?
Certainly.
And if there be any ally which aids the oligarchical principle within him,
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