...freemen and citizens, who are not rich and have no personal merit — arc both solved. There is still 7 a danger in allowing them to share the great offices...letting them share, for a state in which many poor men arc excluded from office will necessarily be full of enemies. The only way of escape is to assign to...

...not enjoy any special reputation for virtue? These difficulties are solved thus: "There is a certain danger in allowing them to share the great offices...letting them share, for a state in which many poor are excluded altogether from office, will necessarily be full of enemies. The only way to escape is...

...freemen and citizens, who are not rich and have no personal merit — are both solved. There is still 35 a danger in allowing them to share the great offices...crime. But there is. a danger also in not letting theni share, for a state in which many poor men are excluded from*office will' necessarily be full...

...assigned to the mass of freemen and citizens, who are not rich and have no personal merit - are both solved. There is still a danger in allowing them to...dishonesty into crime. But there is a danger also in not 30 letting them share, for a state in which many poor men are excluded from office will necessarily...

...humankind. He further points to a danger in allowing the mass of people to share the offices of state since "their folly will lead them into error, and their dishonesty into crime," yet, he also maintains that there is danger in excluding large numbers of people from these duties...