the exact place was at the question, Where you would divide the

management of herds. To this you appeared rather too ready to answer

that there were two species of animals; man being one, and all brutes

making up the other.

YOUNG SOCRATES: True.

STRANGER: I thought that in taking away a part, you imagined that the

remainder formed a class, because you were able to call them by the

common name of brutes.

YOUNG SOCRATES: That again is true.

STRANGER: Suppose now, O most courageous of dialecticians, that some

wise and understanding creature, such as a crane is reputed to be,

were, in imitation of you, to make a similar division, and set up cranes

against all other animals to their own special glorification, at the

same time jumbling together all the others, including man, under the

appellation of brutes,--here would be the sort of error which we must

try to avoid.

YOUNG SOCRATES: How can we be safe?

STRANGER: If we do not divide the whole class of animals, we shall be

less likely to fall into that error.

Statesman