Plato conceives the Gods according to the exigencies of his own mind--complete discord with those of the popular mind 163 Repugnance of ordinary Athenians in regard to the criticism of Sokrates on the religious legends 165 Aristophanes connects the idea of immorality with the freethinkers and their wicked misinterpretations _ib._ Heresies ascribed to Sokrates by his own friends--Unpopularity of his name from this circumstance 168 Restrictions imposed by Plato upon musical modes and reciters _ib._ All these restrictions intended for the emotional training of the Guardians 169 Regulations for the life of the Guardians, especially the prohibition of separate property and family _ib._ Purpose of Plato in these regulations _ib._ Common life, education, drill, collective life, and duties, for Guardians of both sexes. Views of Plato respecting the female character and aptitudes 171 His arguments against the ordinary doctrine 172 Opponents appealed to nature as an authority against Plato. He invokes Nature on his own side against them 173 Collective family relations and denominations among the Guardians 174 Restrictions upon sexual intercourse--Purposes of such restrictions 175 Regulations about marriages and family 176 Procreative powers of individual Guardians required to be held at the disposal of the rulers, for purity of breed 177 Purpose to create an intimate and equal sympathy among all the Guardians, but to prevent exclusive sympathy of particular members 178 Platonic scheme--partial communism 179 Soldiership as a separate profession has acquired greater development in modern times 180 Spartan institutions--great impression which they produced upon speculative Greek minds 181 Plans of these speculative minds compared with Spartan--Different types of character contemplated 182 Plato carries abstraction farther than Xenophon or Aristotle 183 Anxiety shown by Plato for the good treatment of the Demos, greater than that shown by Xenophon and Aristotle _ib._ In Aristotle's theory, the Demos are not considered as members of the Commonwealth, but as adjuncts 184 Objection urged by Aristotle against the Platonic Republic, that it will be two cities. Spiritual pride of the Guardians, contempt for the Demos _ib._ Plato's scheme fails, mainly because he provides no training for the Demos 186 Principle of Aristotle--That every citizen belongs to the city, not to himself--applied by Plato to women 187 Aristotle declares the Platonic Commonwealth impossible--In what sense this is true 189 The real impossibility of the Platonic Commonwealth, arises from the fact that discordant sentiments are already established 191 Plato has strong feelings of right and wrong about sexual intercourse, but referring to different objects 192 Different sentiment which would grow up in the Platonic Commonwealth respecting the sexual relations 193