PLATO: REPUBLIC, translated by Paul Shorey (Cambridge, MA ...
But the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse164 if a man will not
himself hold office and rule. It is from fear of this, as it appears ...... 126 The
following page is Plato's most eloquent statement of Wordsworth's, Ruskin's, and
Tennyson's gospel of beauty for the education of the young. He repeats it in Laws
668 B.