YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.

STRANGER: And I cannot help thinking, Socrates, that the form of

the divine shepherd is even higher than that of a king; whereas the

statesmen who are now on earth seem to be much more like their subjects

in character, and much more nearly to partake of their breeding and

education.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.

STRANGER: Still they must be investigated all the same, to see whether,

like the divine shepherd, they are above their subjects or on a level

with them.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Of course.

STRANGER: To resume:--Do you remember that we spoke of a

command-for-self exercised over animals, not singly but collectively,

which we called the art of rearing a herd?

YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes, I remember.

STRANGER: There, somewhere, lay our error; for we never included or

mentioned the Statesman; and we did not observe that he had no place in

our nomenclature.