A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells, Part 6
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Aristotle and the Republic
Plato said most of the social and political ills are under your control, given only the will and courage to change them. That is a high adventurous teaching that has still to soak into the common intelligence of our race. One of his earliest works was the Republic, a dream of a communist aristocracy. His last unfinished work was the Laws, a scheme of regulation for another such utopian state. The criticism of methods of thinking and methods of government was carried on after Plato's death by Aristotle who had been his pupil.
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