YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.

STRANGER: Again, let us take some process of wool-working which is also

a portion of the art of composition, and, dismissing the elements of

division which we found there, make two halves, one on the principle of

composition, and the other on the principle of division.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Let that be done.

STRANGER: And once more, Socrates, we must divide the part which belongs

at once both to wool-working and composition, if we are ever to discover

satisfactorily the aforesaid art of weaving.

YOUNG SOCRATES: We must.

STRANGER: Yes, certainly, and let us call one part of the art the art of

twisting threads, the other the art of combining them.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Do I understand you, in speaking of twisting, to be

referring to manufacture of the warp?

STRANGER: Yes, and of the woof too; how, if not by twisting, is the woof

made?

YOUNG SOCRATES: There is no other way.

Statesman