He assimilates the education of the two sexes, as far as possible, both in music and gymnastic, and, as in the Republic, he would give to gymnastic a purely military character.

In marriage, his object is still to produce the finest children for the state.

As in the Statesman, he would unite in wedlock dissimilar natures--the passionate with the dull, the courageous with the gentle.

And the virtuous tyrant of the Statesman, who has no place in the Republic, again appears.
In this, as in all his writings, he has the strongest sense of the degeneracy and incapacity of the rulers of his own time.
In the Laws, the philosophers, if not banished, like the poets, are at least ignored; and religion takes the place of philosophy in the regulation of human life.

It must however be remembered that the religion of Plato is co-extensive with morality, and is that purified religion and mythology of which he speaks in the second book of the Republic.