YOUNG SOCRATES: By all means.

STRANGER: I say that we should have begun at first by dividing land

animals into biped and quadruped; and since the winged herd, and that

alone, comes out in the same class with man, we should divide bipeds

into those which have feathers and those which have not, and when they

have been divided, and the art of the management of mankind is brought

to light, the time will have come to produce our Statesman and ruler,

and set him like a charioteer in his place, and hand over to him the

reins of state, for that too is a vocation which belongs to him.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Very good; you have paid me the debt,--I mean, that you

have completed the argument, and I suppose that you added the digression

by way of interest. (Compare Republic.)

STRANGER: Then now, let us go back to the beginning, and join the links,

which together make the definition of the name of the Statesman's art.

YOUNG SOCRATES: By all means.

STRANGER: The science of pure knowledge had, as we said originally, a

part which was the science of rule or command, and from this was derived

another part, which was called command-for-self, on the analogy of

selling-for-self; an important section of this was the management of

living animals, and this again was further limited to the management

of them in herds; and again in herds of pedestrian animals. The chief