744D; cf. Shorey, _Class. Phil._, IX (1914), 363: “Plato’s object, however, is not socialistic equalization of the ‘good things’ of life, but the enforced disinterestedness of the rulers, and the complete self-realization of every type of man, in limitation to his own proper sphere and task.” Footnote 373: Cf. pp. 55 and 60, on equality; also note 4, above. Footnote 374: Francotte (_L’Industrie_, II, 250) suggests that _l’étatisme_, “nationalism,” would be a more applicable term for the _Laws_. He distinguishes this from socialism, as being not so thoroughgoing a limitation of the individual as is the “socialism” of the _Republic_. Cf. Shorey, _Class. Phil._, IX (1914), 358, on the famous “communistic” passage in _Laws_ 739C: ὄντως ἐστὶ κοινὰ τὰ φίλων, etc. He calls it a “rhetorical exaltation of that ideal unity of civic feeling, which Demosthenes upbraids Aeschines for not sharing.” For further communistic ideas of Plato, cf. his incomplete romantic story of Atlantis in the _Critias_. The ideal is similar to that of the larger works. Cf. Poehlmann, _op. cit._, II, 348 ff. CHAPTER IV XENOPHON Xenophon was a man of affairs, whose interests touched the practical life of the world on many sides, as is evidenced by the broad scope of his extant works. He was also, however, a pupil of Socrates. In his economic thought, therefore, he vacillates between the positive interest of the practical economist and the negative criticism of the Socratics.[375] On the whole, his practical bent dominates, and is especially exhibited in his essay on the _Revenues of Athens_,[376] as also in the fact that he was the first writer to produce a work devoted entirely to economics.[377] The spirit of the moral philosopher, on the other hand, is prominent wherever the influence of Socrates is felt, as in the first chapters of the _Economicus_ and in the _Memorabilia_. When the Socratic ideal dominates, he, in common with other Greek thinkers, confuses economics with ethics, and private with public economy.[378] He makes the science of economy deal with the management of private estates,[379] and believes with Plato and Ruskin that the same qualities are necessary for the successful handling of the affairs of either house or state.[380] VALUE