division of the latter was the art of managing pedestrian animals which

are without horns; this again has a part which can only be comprehended

under one term by joining together three names--shepherding pure-bred

animals. The only further subdivision is the art of man-herding,--this

has to do with bipeds, and is what we were seeking after, and have now

found, being at once the royal and political.

YOUNG SOCRATES: To be sure.

STRANGER: And do you think, Socrates, that we really have done as you

say?

YOUNG SOCRATES: What?

STRANGER: Do you think, I mean, that we have really fulfilled

our intention?--There has been a sort of discussion, and yet the

investigation seems to me not to be perfectly worked out: this is where

the enquiry fails.

YOUNG SOCRATES: I do not understand.

STRANGER: I will try to make the thought, which is at this moment

present in my mind, clearer to us both.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Let me hear.

Statesman