YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.

STRANGER: Besides these, there are the arts which make tools and

instruments of weaving, and which will claim at least to be co-operative

causes in every work of the weaver.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Most true.

STRANGER: Well, then, suppose that we define weaving, or rather that

part of it which has been selected by us, to be the greatest and noblest

of arts which are concerned with woollen garments--shall we be right?

Is not the definition, although true, wanting in clearness and

completeness; for do not all those other arts require to be first

cleared away?

YOUNG SOCRATES: True.

STRANGER: Then the next thing will be to separate them, in order that

the argument may proceed in a regular manner?

YOUNG SOCRATES: By all means.

STRANGER: Let us consider, in the first place, that there are two kinds

of arts entering into everything which we do.

YOUNG SOCRATES: What are they?

Statesman