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Logic IV. 78
After a few practical remarks, Plato goes off into one of his dreams about the connection of this world and the other whith some tophography of the latter and an account of the judgement of the dead. The rest is simply history. According to the stylometric evidence which is pretty strong, quite strong enough to make it proper to follow it against were likelihoods the next writing on Plato was the eighth and ninth books of the Republic. These form one essay the division between them having no significance. It is of a politico-ethical nature but the latter part of it is almost pure ethics discussed from psychological point of view. The general idea of the whole is that as there are five constitutions of government so there must be five way in which human characters are made up for the constitutions of states grow out of the characters of the citizens. 544 DE. The work