STRANGER: Where shall we discover the path of the Statesman? We must

find and separate off, and set our seal upon this, and we will set

the mark of another class upon all diverging paths. Thus the soul will

conceive of all kinds of knowledge under two classes.

YOUNG SOCRATES: To find the path is your business, Stranger, and not

mine.

STRANGER: Yes, Socrates, but the discovery, when once made, must be

yours as well as mine.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Very good.

STRANGER: Well, and are not arithmetic and certain other kindred arts,

merely abstract knowledge, wholly separated from action?

YOUNG SOCRATES: True.

STRANGER: But in the art of carpentering and all other handicrafts, the

knowledge of the workman is merged in his work; he not only knows, but

he also makes things which previously did not exist.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.

STRANGER: Then let us divide sciences in general into those which are

practical and those which are purely intellectual.