yourselves and of the state. you have had a better and more complete education than any of the others; so down you go into the cave with the rest to get used to seeing in the dark. for then you will see far better than they do what these images are, and what they are of, for you have seen what the beautiful, the just and the good truly are.‖ so our state will be ruled by minds which are awake, and not as now by men in a dream fighting with one another over shadows and for the power and office which in their eyes are the great good. 