Motif
Small disorder growing into total civic disorder
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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The Republic BOOK I. / BOOK II. / BOOK III. / BOOK IV.; lines 13923-14069 confidence: high
A spirit of licence begins in amusement, penetrates manners and customs, moves into contracts, laws, and constitutions, and ends in the overthrow of private and public rights.
The passage presents licence beginning in amusement and gradually invading manners, contracts, laws, and constitutions until rights are overthrown.
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