[815]. Pol. v (viii). 1. 1337a27-30, a remarkable passage, suggestive of Plato and of St. Paul’s analogy of the body. Aristotle paints vividly the antithesis between political and economic equality, whereby there grows up a state within a state (1295b13 ff.), for he believes with the author of Eud. Eth. vii. 10. 1242a, that man is not only a πολιτικόν, but also an οἰκονομικόν ζῷον. Cl. Poehlmann, op. cit., I, 276 ff.
[816]. 1266b8-14; 1265a38-42; unfair to Plato, as seen above.
[817]. 1266b24-28; 1265a28-38.
[818]. 1265b22 ff.
[819]. 1267b9-13.
[820]. Cf. his criticism of the Spartan system, 1270a40 ff.
[821]. On its wisdom, cf. infra; on its feasibility, cf. 1263b29: πάμπαν ἀδύνατος.
[822]. 1261a16-1261b15.
[823]. 1261b30-32; 24-28.
[824]. 32-35.