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'This book set me thinking of its rivals in late years- the glossies from other States with their happy snaps of writers, potted chronicles and modest one of several pages for each to strut the stuff that Plato banished from a State that was ideal. Like Professor Julius Sumner Miller, I asked myself why this should be so.' (Introduction)