"" ~ Can't we say that the best form of government is the government that is most effective at providing a way of selecting naturally talented "aristoi" for government service? "aristoi" comes from a Greek work that means "noble warrior", but it's used here to mean something like "higher class people", or whatever class of people was mentioned earlier in the text. CJ
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ashahrabif""May we not even say, that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?""~