STRANGER: Carding and spinning threads and all the parts of the process

which are concerned with the actual manufacture of a woollen garment

form a single art, which is one of those universally acknowledged,--the

art of working in wool.

YOUNG SOCRATES: To be sure.

STRANGER: Of working in wool, again, there are two divisions, and both

these are parts of two arts at once.

YOUNG SOCRATES: How is that?

STRANGER: Carding and one half of the use of the comb, and the other

processes of wool-working which separate the composite, may be classed

together as belonging both to the art of wool-working, and also to one

of the two great arts which are of universal application--the art of

composition and the art of division.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.

STRANGER: To the latter belong carding and the other processes of which

I was just now speaking; the art of discernment or division in wool and

yarn, which is effected in one manner with the comb and in another with

the hands, is variously described under all the names which I just now

mentioned.

Statesman