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LARGE PRINT EDITION This is a LARGE PRINT EDITION reproduced in a larger typeface for broader readership accessibility. The text of this edition originates from a third edition English translation, published in 1888 by B. Jowett, M.A., Master of Balliol College, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford, Doctor in Theology of the University of Leyden, and belongs to the Public Domain. “The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them...no other Dialogue of Plato has the same largeness of view and the same perfection of style; no other shows an equal knowledge of the world, or contains more of those thoughts which are new as well as old, and not of one age only but of all. Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humour or imagery, or more dramatic power. Nor in any other of his writings is the attempt made to interweave life and speculation, or to connect politics with philosophy. The Republic is the centre around which the other Dialogues may be grouped; here philosophy reaches the highest point...to which ancient thinkers ever attained.” - B. Jowett, M.A.