YOUNG SOCRATES: Very good.

STRANGER: You know that these arts cannot easily be divided into two

halves; the reason will be very evident as we proceed.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Then we had better do so.

STRANGER: We must carve them like a victim into members or limbs, since

we cannot bisect them. (Compare Phaedr.) For we certainly should divide

everything into as few parts as possible.

YOUNG SOCRATES: What is to be done in this case?

STRANGER: What we did in the example of weaving--all those arts which

furnish the tools were regarded by us as co-operative.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.

STRANGER: So now, and with still more reason, all arts which make any

implement in a State, whether great or small, may be regarded by us as

co-operative, for without them neither State nor Statesmanship would

be possible; and yet we are not inclined to say that any of them is a

product of the kingly art.

YOUNG SOCRATES: No, indeed.