POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

a60 ARISTOTLE 'S POLITICS.

p16fvLs ~pdi(obvror TSY 2~~6s. Aristotle appears to start with a con.

sideration of the perfect state ; but in attempting to describe the

conditions of it he seems to forget his higher purpose. Unless it

may be supposed that the Politics is an unfinished work.

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      rairvv ol~riov cluar ptyiunp, OTOV '~~?ro~p~irrjv OLK dv@pwnov ~XX' inrpbv
      tIuar pi(w $$utrtv a'v 76s roij Gra$ipomos war& rb p'iyr8or 70; ohparor.
      ' That city is the greatest, not which is numerically largest, but
      which is best adapted to its end; just as Hippocrates is greater, not
      as a man but as a physician, than somebody else who is taller.'
      The great city must have the qualities suited to a city, just as
      the great Hippocrates must have the qualities, not of a tall man,
      but of a physician. It is the accident of a city that it is populous,
      just as it is the accident of Hippocrates that he is tall.
   
   
   
   

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   TO~O 6vvdpcos Zpyov, +is rai rdBs uvvC,ysr rb niv. kri id y~ K&V iv
   sXj& Ka'r ptyitkr tlo8t yivtudar. 6~b Ka'l ad~L~ $S pfd pfyiaovs 6 htx6&

The divine power which holds

together the universe can alone give order to infinity, For beauty

consists in number and magnitude; wherefore that city in which

magnitude is combined with the principle of order is to be deemed

the fairest,'

In this and similar passages we may note mingling with

Pythagorean fancies, a true sense that proportion is the first principle

of beauty. Cp. hIetaph. xii. 8.8 26, 1074 b. I, napaMiorar 6; rap& r&~

i7pos hdpxcr, rahy clvar xahXiur?v dvayraiov.

The connexion is as follows :

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6toi 7; fium ov'ror mi rrfpdxrr 76 8riov riv a"Xvu $&~tv* rh 6; Xo~nh pU8lKic

$87 IrpOU$KTaL TpbS T?)V Bf& 7i)Y lrOXX&V Ka'l np6S 7iY C?S 706s UdpOvs Kai

rb my+'pou xp~urv.

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6 Xq8sio Gpor, ' the above-mentioned principle,' sc. rka&

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