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PART I

The Idea of America

A city ought to be composed, as far as possible, of equals and similars; and these are generally the middle classes. This is the class of citizens which is most secure in a state, for they do not, like the poor, covet their neighbors’ goods; nor do others covet theirs, as the poor covet the goods of the rich; and as they neither plot against others, nor are themselves plotted against, they pass through life safely.

—ARISTOTLE, Politics