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People have argued about what the point of all this was,
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but I think one limited point,
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before we get to the full story,
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is simply another way of cutting down
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the influence of birth in the society.
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It's a way of damaging the aristocratic principle
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and asserting in its place
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--look what's really happening here,
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that there is something which is the polis
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that has nothing to do with birth
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that is the part of the legal structure which is a polis.
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It's a whole new concept that's really creeping in here,