The Republic, by Plato. Part III.
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The Nature of a Woman
I said, suppose that by way of illustration, we were to ask the question whether there is not an opposition in nature between bald men and hairy men. And conversely, that would be a jest, he said. Yes, I said, a jest. And why? Because we never met when we constructed the state that the opposition of natures should extend to every difference, but only to those differences which affected the pursuit in which the individual is engaged. We shall therefore continue to maintain that our guardians and their wives are to have the same pursuits. Next, we shall ask our opponent how, in reference to any of the pursuits or arts of civic life, the nature of a
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