STRANGER: Which was, unmistakeably, one of the arts of knowledge?

YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.

STRANGER: And to this art of calculation which discerns the differences

of numbers shall we assign any other function except to pass judgment on

their differences?

YOUNG SOCRATES: How could we?

STRANGER: You know that the master-builder does not work himself, but is

the ruler of workmen?

YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.

STRANGER: He contributes knowledge, not manual labour?

YOUNG SOCRATES: True.

STRANGER: And may therefore be justly said to share in theoretical

science?

YOUNG SOCRATES: Quite true.

STRANGER: But he ought not, like the calculator, to regard his functions

as at an end when he has formed a judgment;--he must assign to the

Statesman