Every way like unto the fullness of a well-rounded sphere, Evenly

balanced from the centre on every side, And must needs be neither

greater nor less in any way, Neither on this side nor on that--'

then being has a centre and extremes, and, having these, must also

have parts.

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: Yet that which has parts may have the attribute of unity in

all the parts, and in this way being all and a whole, may be one?

THEAETETUS: Certainly.

STRANGER: But that of which this is the condition cannot be absolute

unity?

THEAETETUS: Why not?

STRANGER: Because, according to right reason, that which is truly one

must be affirmed to be absolutely indivisible.

THEAETETUS: Certainly.

STRANGER: But this indivisible, if made up of many parts, will

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