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Tonight we're taking a wander back 2,000 years to ancient Greece with the politics, a treatise on government by Aristotle,

translated from the Greek by William Ellis A.m.

First published in 1912 by J.M.

J.Denton Sons Limited, London and Toronto. Let's begin.

Introduction

The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise, of which the ethics is the first part. It looks back to the ethics, as the ethics looks forward to the politics.

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