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The first thought is that the people are the enemies of truth and

right; the second, that this only arises out of an accidental

error and confusion, and that they do not really hate those who

love them, if they could be educated to know them.

In the latter part of the sixth book, three questions have to be

considered: 1st, the nature of the longer and more circuitous

way, which is contrasted with the shorter and more imperfect

method of Book IV; 2nd, the heavenly pattern or idea of the

state; 3rd, the relation of the divisions of knowledge to one

another and to the corresponding faculties of the soul: