 | Aristotle - 1885 - 464 pages
...haphazard, 14 which clearly ought not to be. Besides, in an overpopulous state foreigners and metics will readily acquire the rights of citizens, for who...the same principle will apply to the territory of \ .the state : every one would agree in praising the state which is most entirely self-sufficing ;... | |
 | Aristotle - 1885 - 460 pages
...haphazard, 14 which clearly ought not to be. Besides, in an overpopulous state foreigners and metics will readily acquire the rights of citizens, for who will find them out? Clearly then the \jjfigt limit of the population of a state is the JajgestJUunber which suffices for. the purposes of... | |
 | William Warde Fowler - 1893 - 358 pages
...most singular one ; but it is all the more significant of the true nature of the TroTu?. " The true limit of the population of a State is the largest number which suffices for the [higher] purposes of life, and which can lie taken in at a single view." 2 Just as the TroXt? begins... | |
 | Benjamin Jowett - 1899 - 480 pages
...Poet. 7, ยง 4. which clearly ought not to be. Besides, in an overpopulous State foreigners and metics will readily acquire the rights of citizens, for who...the same principle will apply to the territory of the State: everyone would agree in praising the State which is most entirely self-sufficing; and that... | |
 | Plato - 1899 - 514 pages
...7, ! 4. 173 which clearly ought not to be. Besides, in an overpopulous State foreigners and metics will readily acquire the rights of citizens, for who...the same principle will apply to the territory of the State: everyone would agree in praising the State which is most entirely self-sufficing ; and that... | |
 | James Hervey Hyslop - 1903 - 502 pages
...at haphazard, which clearly ought not to be. Besides, in an overpopulous state foreigners and metics will readily acquire the rights of citizens, for who...single view. Enough concerning the size of a city. " Having spoken of the number of the citizens, we will proceed to speak of what should be their character.... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 488 pages
...haphazard, which clearly ought not to be. Besides, in an over-populous state foreigners and metics will readily acquire the rights of citizens, for who...the same principle will apply to the territory of the state : every one would agree in praising the state which is most entirely selfsufficing ; and... | |
 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - 1911 - 620 pages
...government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act for the best and live happily. . . . Clearly, then, the best limit of the population of...purposes of life, and can be taken in at a single view. ... In size and extent it should be such as may enable the inhabitants to live temperately and liberally... | |
 | Alfred Zimmern - 1911 - 470 pages
...number ' for his ideal Republic by some mathematical rigmarole: Aristotle prefers to define it as ' the largest number which suffices for the purposes of life and can be taken in at a single view '. But both agree in the necessity both for its smallness and its fixity. Few details bring before... | |
 | Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern - 1911 - 478 pages
...ideal Republic by some mathematical rigmaroleprefers to define it as ' the largest number which svf purposes of life and can be taken in at a single view '. But both agree in the necessity both for its smallness and its fixity. Few details bring before... | |
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Clearly then the best limit of the population of a state is the largest number which suffices for the purposes of life, and can be taken in at a single view. 
