_Laws_ 742E, especially πλουσίους δ᾽ αὒ σφόδρα καὶ ἀγαθοὺς ἀδύνατον. For the modern application of this doctrine, cf. _infra_; cf. also 743A, C; _Rep._ 550E, 551A. Footnote 96: _Rep._ 422; cf. 372E ff. on the φλεγμαίνουσα state. Footnote 97: 373E; _Phaedo_ 66C. Compare the modern doctrine that lasting peace is impossible under the present economic system. Footnote 98: _Laws_ 744D: διάστασις; also a basal idea of the _Republic_. Footnote 99: This is the spirit of the _Republic_ throughout, but cf. especially 369C-374D, and p. 25, n. 7. Footnote 100: _Laws_ 736E: καὶ πενίαν ἡγουμένους εἶναι μὴ τὸ τὴν οὐσίαν ἐλάττω ποιεῖν, ἀλλὸ τὸ τὴν ἀπληστίαν πλείω. Cf. _infra_ on Xenophon for similar ideas. Carlyle, _Sartor Resartus_, chapter on “Everlasting Yea”: “The fraction of life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your numerator as by lessening your denominator.” Ruskin, _Time and Tide_, II, 5 ff. (Vol. XVII, 319 ff.); cf. 320, n. 1, for other references. Thoreau: “A man is wealthy in proportion to the number of things he can let alone”—an overemphasized truth. Footnote 101: So Socrates (_Apol._ 41E, 29D-E) and Jesus (Matt. 6:33). Footnote 102: _Laws_ 634A. Footnote 103: _Rep._ 329E-330A, 330D-331B; cf. also the prayer of _Phaedrus_ 279C: τὸ δὲ χρυσοῦ πλῆθος εἴη μοι ὅσον μήτε ἅγειν δύναιτ᾽ ἄλλος ἢ ὁ σώφρων; _Laws_ 679B; _Gorg._ 477E: τίς οὖν τέχνη πενίας ἀππαλλάττει; οὐ χρηματιστική; cf. also 452C. Footnote 104: Cf. preceding notes; also _Rep._ 421D-E; _Laws_ 744D. Footnote 105: Bonar (_Philosophy and Political Economy_, pp. 13 f.) criticizes _Rep._ 400-402 for not seeing that unlimited wealth is necessary for the realization of the highest art and beauty. Footnote 106: Plato also emphasizes this, _Laws_ 743E, 870B: οὐ χρὴ πλουτεῖν ζητεῖν τὸν εὐδαίμονα ἐσόμενον, ἀλλὰ δικαίως πλουτεῖν καὶ σωφρόνως; 660E; though he implies that unlimited wealth is necessarily evil. Footnote 107: _Rep._ 552B-D; cf. Robin, _op. cit._, p. 243, n. 1, on κηφήν. Footnote 108: In _Mun. Pul._, III, 91 (Vol. XVII, 213), he makes Circe’s swine a type of false consumption; cf. _Fors Clav._, Letter 38 (Vol. XXVIII, 30 ff.); _Mun. Pul._, Pref., 16 (Vol. XVII, 139 f.); _Queen of the Air_, III, 124 ff. (Vol. XIX, 404 ff.); _Pol. Econ. of Art_, I, 48 ff. (Vol. XVI, 47 ff.); _Unto This Last_, IV, 76 (Vol. XVII, 102); Mill also attacked this idea. Footnote 109: _Unto This Last_, II, 40 (Vol. XVII, 56); cf. also _Mun. Pul._, II, 54 (Vol. XVII, 178 f.). Footnote 110: Discussed above. Footnote 111: Cf. _Pol._ 281D-283A, for an excellent description of the weaving industry; also _Crat._ 388C ff.; _Phileb._ 56B, on carpentry. Footnote 112: _Pol._ 287D-289B; cf. Espinas, _op. cit._, pp. 35 f.; “L’Art économie dans Platon,” _Revue des Etudes Grecques_, XXVII (1914), 106 ff. Footnote 113: