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'But, my dear Socrates, you are forgetting the main question: Is

such a State possible? I grant all and more than you say about

the blessedness of being one family-fathers, brothers, mothers,

daughters, going out to war together; but I want to ascertain the

possibility of this ideal State.' You are too unmerciful. The

first wave and the second wave I have hardly escaped, and now you

will certainly drown me with the third. When you see the towering

crest of the wave, I expect you to take pity. 'Not a whit.'