coverings in entire pieces, and the art of sheltering, and subtracted

the various arts of making water-tight which are employed in building,

and in general in carpentering, and in other crafts, and all such

arts as furnish impediments to thieving and acts of violence, and are

concerned with making the lids of boxes and the fixing of doors, being

divisions of the art of joining; and we also cut off the manufacture

of arms, which is a section of the great and manifold art of making

defences; and we originally began by parting off the whole of the magic

art which is concerned with antidotes, and have left, as would appear,

the very art of which we were in search, the art of protection against

winter cold, which fabricates woollen defences, and has the name of

weaving.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.

STRANGER: Yes, my boy, but that is not all; for the first process to

which the material is subjected is the opposite of weaving.

YOUNG SOCRATES: How so?

STRANGER: Weaving is a sort of uniting?

YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.

STRANGER: But the first process is a separation of the clotted and

matted fibres?

Statesman