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pleaſure of the neceſſary kind: but the deſire of theſe things beyond theſe purpoſes, is capable of being curbed in youth; and, being hurtful to the body and to the ſoul, with reference to her attaining wiſdom and temperance, may be called unneceſſary: in the ſame manner we ſhall ſay of venereal deſires, and others. We juſt now denominated a drone the man who was full of ſuch deſires and pleaſures; but the oligarchic man, him who was under the neceſſary ones. The democratic appears to ariſe from the oligarchic man in this manner:—When a young man, bred up without proper inſtruction, and in a parſimonious manner, comes to taſte the honey of the drones, and aſſociates with thoſe vehement and terrible creatures, who are able to procure pleaſures every way diverſified, from every quarter; thence imagine there is the beginning of a change in him, from the oligarchic to the democratic. And as the city was changed by the aſſiſtance of an alliance from without, with one party of it, with which it was of kin, ſhall not the youth be changed in the ſame manner, by the aſſiſtance of one ſpecies of deſires from without, to another within him, which reſembles it, and is akin to it? By all means. If any aſſiſtance be given to the oligarchic party within him, by his father, or the others of his family, admoniſhing and upbraiding him, then truly ariſes ſedition and oppoſition, and a fight within him, with himſelf. Sometimes the democratic party yields to the oligarchic; ſome of the deſires are deſtroyed, others retire, on the riſe of a certain modeſty in the ſoul of the youth, and he is again rendered ſomewhat decent. Again, when ſome deſires retire, there are others akin to them, which grow up, and through inattention to the father's inſtructions become both many and powerful,

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