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Yes, far more easily. But ought we to attempt to construct one? I said; for to do so, as I am inclined to think, will be a very serious task. Re- flect therefore. I have reflected, said Adeimantus, and am anxious that you should proceed. A State, I said, arises,^as I cpnceive, out of the needs of man- kind ; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. Can any other origin of a State be imagined? There can be no other. Then, as we have many wants, and many persons are needed to supp...ly them, one takes a helper for one purpose and another for another ; and when these partners and helpers are gathered together in one habitation the body of inhabitants is termed a State. 48 PLATO True, he said. And they exchange with one another, and one gives, and an- other receives, under the idea that the exchange will be for their good. Very true. Then, I said, let us begin and create in idea a State ; and yet the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention. Of course, he replied.
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