Cutting-up Atlantis (Six)

who had no eye to see true happiness Such was the natural state of the country by true husbandmen, who made husbandry of a noble nature, and had a soil best in heaven above an excellently attempered on this wise. In the first place the Acropolis night of excessive rain washed away the earth there were earthquakes, then occurred third before the great destruction of Deucalis Acropolis extended to the Eridanus and the Lycabettus as a boundary on the opposite with soil, and level at the top, except in one under the sides of the hill there dwelt artisans the ground near; the warrior class dwelt by Hephaestus at the summit, which moreover garden of a single house. On the north side erected halls for dining in winter, and had common life, besides temples, but there was they made no use of these for any purpose; and ostentation, and built modest houses in in the lost island of Atlantis; and this he following reasons, as tradition tells: For many in them, they were obedient to the laws, seed they were; for they possessed true and with wisdom in the various chances of life, they despised everything but virtue, caring lightly of the possession of gold and other neither were they intoxicated by luxury; but they were sober, and saw clearly friendship with one another, whereas by lost and friendship with them. By such a divine nature, the qualities which we have but when the divine portion began to fade much with the mortal admixture, and the being unable to bear their fortune, behaved grew visibly debased, for they were losing who had no eye to see true happiness ___________________________________ 

Cut up of an original text, Critias, by Plato