"Education and upbringing. If they’re well educated and become moderate men they’ll easily discern this and everything we’re leaving out, like marriage, mating, and the possession of wives, and see that all these must conform as closely as possible to the old saying: ‘The things of friends are common.’ ...And if our regime once gets a good Start it will continue to grow like a circle.' Good education and upbringing, if preserved, will produce good natures which in turn, if they partake of good education, will grow better than their predecessors in breeding and everything else, like any other living thing.”"
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