The second of the three proposals, though ingenious, and receiving some light from the apathy to politics which is often shown by the higher classes in a democracy, would have little power in times of excitement and peril, when the precaution was most needed.

At such political crises, all the lower classes would vote equally with the higher.

The subtraction of half the persons chosen at the first election by the chances of the lot would not raise the character of the senators, and is open to the objection of uncertainty, which necessarily attends this and similar schemes of double representative government.

Nor can the voters be expected to retain the continuous political interest required for carrying out such a proposal as Plato's.

Who could select 180 persons of each class, fitted to be senators?
And whoever were chosen by the voter in the first instance, his wishes might be neutralized by the action of the lot.