STRANGER: I will tell you, and you shall answer me, giving your very

closest attention. Suppose that a person were to profess, not that he

could speak or dispute, but that he knew how to make and do all things,

by a single art.

THEAETETUS: All things?

STRANGER: I see that you do not understand the first word that I utter,

for you do not understand the meaning of 'all.'

THEAETETUS: No, I do not.

STRANGER: Under all things, I include you and me, and also animals and

trees.

THEAETETUS: What do you mean?

STRANGER: Suppose a person to say that he will make you and me, and all

creatures.

THEAETETUS: What would he mean by 'making'? He cannot be a

husbandman;--for you said that he is a maker of animals.

STRANGER: Yes; and I say that he is also the maker of the sea, and the

earth, and the heavens, and the gods, and of all other things; and,

Sophist