YOUNG SOCRATES: There is.

STRANGER: And is there any higher art or science, having power to decide

which of these arts are and are not to be learned;--what do you say?

YOUNG SOCRATES: I should answer that there is.

STRANGER: And do we acknowledge this science to be different from the

others?

YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.

STRANGER: And ought the other sciences to be superior to this, or no

single science to any other? Or ought this science to be the overseer

and governor of all the others?

YOUNG SOCRATES: The latter.

STRANGER: You mean to say that the science which judges whether we ought

to learn or not, must be superior to the science which is learned or

which teaches?

YOUNG SOCRATES: Far superior.

STRANGER: And the science which determines whether we ought to persuade

or not, must be superior to the science which is able to persuade?

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