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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: Very good.
STRANGER: Thus a very fair distinction has been attained between the man
who gives his own commands, and him who gives another's. And now let us
see if the supreme power allows of any further division.
YOUNG SOCRATES: By all means.
STRANGER: I think that it does; and please to assist me in making the
division.
YOUNG SOCRATES: At what point?
STRANGER: May not all rulers be supposed to command for the sake of
producing something?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.
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