rural stewards and guard officers as the five curators of the twelve young
men.... There were to be three city stewards, dividing the twelve parts of
the city into three ... and five Market-Stewards, to be chosen from ten
elected"....(142)

It is deeply interesting to consider from the standpoint of comparative
study the principal features of the perfected scheme proposed by Plato, in
the fifth century B. C, for the establishment of an ideal colony, which is
designated as a "divine polity" or a "holy land." This is especially the
case when we see that Plato himself states that it is the conformity of
the states to the inherent laws of nature, that confers upon it divinity
or holiness. It seems impossible not to recognize that both ideal
republics of Plato were intended to be "celestial kingdoms" or "kingdoms
of heaven" and that he expounded and doubtlessly perfected, an ancient
ideal which had been more or less successfully carried out in different
countries during many centuries before his time.

Having studied the proposed scheme for the foundation of a new colony of
the Greeks, who proudly maintained that "it was meet that the Greeks
should rule barbarians," and pursued a regular system of colonization, let
us now obtain an idea of the mode in which Greeks had previously founded
colonies by reading the following passage from Grote's History of Greece,
vol. IV, chap. XXVII:

"Under reign of Psammetichus, king of Egypt, about the middle of seventh
century B.C., Grecian mercenaries were first established in Egypt and
Grecian traders admitted ... into the Nile.(143) The opening of this new
market emboldened them to traverse the direct sea which separates Krete
from Egypt--a dangerous voyage with vessels which rarely ventured to lose
sight of land--and seems to have first made them acquainted with the
neighboring coast of Libya ... hence arose the foundation of the important
colony called Kyrene" ... about 630 B.C.

"Thera was the mother-city, herself a colony from Lacedaemon ... political
dissension among its inhabitants ... bad seasons, distress and
over-population led to the emigration that founded Kyrene.... The oekist
Battus was selected and consecrated to work of founding the colony....
_From the seven districts into which Thera was divided, emigrants were
drafted for the colony, one brother being singled out by lot from the
different families_.... The band which accompanied Battus was generally
supplied with pr