YOUNG SOCRATES: Most true.

STRANGER: In the next place, let us make the reflection, that the art

of weaving clothes, which an incompetent person might fancy to have been

sufficiently described, has been separated off from several others which

are of the same family, but not from the co-operative arts.

YOUNG SOCRATES: And which are the kindred arts?

STRANGER: I see that I have not taken you with me. So I think that we

had better go backwards, starting from the end. We just now parted off

from the weaving of clothes, the making of blankets, which differ from

each other in that one is put under and the other is put around: and

these are what I termed kindred arts.

YOUNG SOCRATES: I understand.

STRANGER: And we have subtracted the manufacture of all articles made

of flax and cords, and all that we just now metaphorically termed the

sinews of plants, and we have also separated off the process of felting

and the putting together of materials by stitching and sewing, of which

the most important part is the cobbler's art.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Precisely.

STRANGER: Then we separated off the currier's art, which prepared

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