[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v4.c62.35 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c62.35 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c62.35 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c62.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.35) 19a Berolzheimer in 'the World's Legal Philosophies' (tr. by Jastrow, New York, 1929) p. 62 remarks 'Plato approved of slavery unreservedly, finding it a necessary condition for the maintenance of the proper status of the citizen. ... Thus in the maritime and industrial states there was a large slave class; in Corinth, 460000; Aegina, 470000; in Attica (according to the census of 309 B. C.) 400000'. - [Previous: v4.c62.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.34) - [Next: v4.c62.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.36) - [Up: v4.c62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.35) · Pramāṇa