“‘Of course we shall.’
“‘Then shall we not experience the need of medical men also to a much greater extent under this than under the former régime?’
“‘Yes, indeed.’
“‘The country, too, I presume, which was formerly adequate to the support of its then inhabitants, will be now too small, and adequate no longer. Shall we say so?’
“‘Certainly.’
“‘Then must we not cut ourselves a slice of our neighbours’ territory, if we are to have land enough both for pasture and tillage? While they will do the same to ours if they, like us, permit themselves to overstep the limit of necessaries, and plunge into the unbounded acquisition of wealth.’
“‘It must inevitably be so, Sokrates.’
“‘Will our next step be to go to war, Glaukon, or how will it be?’
“‘As you say.’
“At this stage of our inquiry let us avoid asserting either that war does good or that it does harm, confining ourselves to this statement—that we have further traced the origin of war to causes which are the most fruitful sources of whatever evils befall a State, either in its corporate capacity or in its individual members.” (Book II.)[17]