Dialogue

 1 Intro|          man but God; and such a government existed in a former cycle
 2 Intro|          sense, the true form of government is that which has scientific
 3 Intro|          any of the six forms of government which prevail in the world.
 4 Intro|          As in the Republic, the government of philosophers, the causes
 5 Intro|     under their various forms of government. (5) His characteristic
 6 Intro|   implume,’ and put the reins of government into his hands.~Here let
 7 Intro|        to the animals. Under his government there were no estates, or
 8 Intro|        art of governing into the government of willing and unwilling
 9 Intro|   science. Nor am I referring to government officials, such as heralds
10 Intro|       What are the true forms of government? Are they not three—monarchy,
11 Intro|       worthy of the name? Is not government a science, and are we to
12 Intro|          suppose that scientific government is secured by the rulers
13 Intro|        political science. A true government must therefore be the government
14 Intro| government must therefore be the government of one, or of a few. And
15 Intro|           that there can be good government without law.’~I must explain:
16 Intro|          law. This is scientific government, and all others are imitations
17 Intro|         nearest approach to true government is, when men do nothing
18 Intro|         a tyrant. These forms of government exist, because men despair
19 Intro|         over to him the reins of government. But, as there is no natural
20 Intro|         of these untrue forms of government is the least bad, and which
21 Intro|       each of the three forms of government, royalty, aristocracy, and
22 Intro|          neglects, the laws. The government of one is the best and the
23 Intro|       the best and the worst—the government of a few is less bad and
24 Intro|       less bad and less good—the government of the many is the least
25 Intro|     enemies. But the true art of government, first preparing the material
26 Intro|           Of the ideal or divine government of the world we can form
27 Intro|          more and less immediate government of the world.~II. The dialectical
28 Intro|   appears in view—the science of government, which fixes the limits
29 Intro|          first, because all good government supposes a degree of co-operation
30 Intro|        virtue; secondly, because government, whether Divine or human,
31 Intro|         or six received forms of government as better than none. And
32 Intro|           we have three forms of government, which we may venture to
33 Intro|         God, the actual forms of government have to be considered. In
34 Intro|          one of another; and the government has greater power and stability
35 Intro|        the best balanced form of government has been held to be the
36 Intro|        enter into the problem of government. Admitting of course that
37 Intro|   presents the idea of a perfect government, but except the regulation
38 Intro|          ideals, would place the government in a middle class of citizens,
39 Intro|        by Thucydides as the best government of Athens which he had known.
40 Intro|       persons who had a share of government should have received their
41 Intro|         that second best form of government, which, after all, is admitted
42 State|         differ at all, as far as government is concerned?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
43 State|       him there were no forms of government or separate possession of
44 State|    distinct, like their modes of government.~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER:
45 State|      business connected with the government of states—what shall we
46 State|    monarchy a recognized form of government?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.~STRANGER:
47 State|          next in order comes the government of the few?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
48 State|         Is not the third form of government the rule of the multitude,
49 State|          true.~STRANGER: And the government of the few they distinguish
50 State|         suppose that any form of government which is defined by these
51 State|        States may the science of government, which is among the greatest
52 State|         is that any true form of government can only be supposed to
53 State|       only be supposed to be the government of one, two, or, at any
54 State|         be the only true form of government in which the governors are
55 State|       notion of there being good government without laws.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
56 State|       this the true principle of government, according to which the
57 State|        wisely, but that the true government is to be found in a small
58 State|   express it thus:—Supposing the government of which I have been speaking
59 State|       which these lower forms of government can ever make to the true
60 State|        can ever make to the true government of the one scientific ruler,
61 State|    imitate the true form, such a government is called aristocracy; and
62 State|          can to the true form of government.~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER:
63 State|         of these untrue forms of government is the least oppressive
64 State|   speaking of the three forms of government, which I mentioned at the
65 State|    SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER: The government of the few, which is intermediate
66 State|        in good and evil; but the government of the many is in every