That a city then precedes an individual is plain, for if an individual is not in himself sufficient to compose a perfect government, he is to a city as other parts are to A whole but he that is incapable of society, or so complete in himself as not to want it, makes no as a beast or a god. There is then in all persons a natural impetus to part of a associate with each other in this manner, and he who first founded civ society was the cause of the greatest good; for as by the completion of it man is the most excellent of a ving beings