YOUNG SOCRATES: How do you mean?

STRANGER: I shall reply by actually performing the process.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Very good.

STRANGER: All things which we make or acquire are either creative or

preventive; of the preventive class are antidotes, divine and human, and

also defences; and defences are either military weapons or protections;

and protections are veils, and also shields against heat and cold, and

shields against heat and cold are shelters and coverings; and coverings

are blankets and garments; and garments are some of them in one piece,

and others of them are made in several parts; and of these latter some

are stitched, others are fastened and not stitched; and of the not

stitched, some are made of the sinews of plants, and some of hair; and

of these, again, some are cemented with water and earth, and others are

fastened together by themselves. And these last defences and coverings

which are fastened together by themselves are called clothes, and

the art which superintends them we may call, from the nature of the

operation, the art of clothing, just as before the art of the Statesman

was derived from the State; and may we not say that the art of weaving,

at least that largest portion of it which was concerned with the making

of clothes, differs only in name from this art of clothing, in the same

way that, in the previous case, the royal science differed from the

political?