Footnotes
[1]
The first census was the hereditary share in land, and Plato
would not allow them to have, in other effects, above a triple of the
hereditary share. See his "Laws," v.
[2]
"In large and populous cities," says the author of the "Fable of
the Bees," i, p. 133, "they wear clothes above their rank, and,
consequently, have the pleasure of being esteemed by a vast majority,
not as what they are, but what they appear to be. They have the
satisfaction of imagining that they appear what they would be: which, to
weak minds, is a pleasure almost as substantial as they could reap from
the very accomplishment of their wishes."
