The guardians of the law are to be ministers of justice, and the president of education is to take precedence of them all.

They are to keep the registers of property, to make regulations for trade, and they are to be superannuated at seventy years of age.

Several questions of modern politics, such as the limitation of property, the enforcement of education, the relations of classes, are anticipated by Plato.

He hopes that in his state will be found neither poverty nor riches; every man having the necessaries of life, he need not go fortune-hunting in marriage.

Almost in the spirit of the Gospel he would say, 'How hardly can a rich man dwell in a perfect state.' For he cannot be a good man who is always gaining too much and spending too little (Laws; compare Arist.Eth.