STRANGER: And a science of a peculiar kind, which was selected out

of the rest as having a character which is at once judicial and

authoritative?

YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.

STRANGER: And there was one kind of authority over lifeless things and

another other living animals; and so we proceeded in the division step

by step up to this point, not losing the idea of science, but unable as

yet to determine the nature of the particular science?

YOUNG SOCRATES: True.

STRANGER: Hence we are led to observe that the distinguishing principle

of the State cannot be the few or many, the voluntary or involuntary,

poverty or riches; but some notion of science must enter into it, if we

are to be consistent with what has preceded.

YOUNG SOCRATES: And we must be consistent.

STRANGER: Well, then, in which of these various forms of States may the

science of government, which is among the greatest of all sciences and

most difficult to acquire, be supposed to reside? That we must discover,

and then we shall see who are the false politicians who pretend to be

politicians but are not, although they persuade many, and shall separate

Statesman