YOUNG SOCRATES: Most true.
YOUNG SOCRATES: What are they?
STRANGER: Well, then, suppose that we define STRANGER: The one kind is the conditional or weaving, or rather that part of it which has been co-operative, the other the principal cause.
selected by us, to be the greatest and noblest of arts which are concerned with woollen garments—shall YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean?
we be right? Is not the definition, although true, wanting in clearness and completeness; for do not STRANGER: The arts which do not manufacture all those other arts require to be first cleared away?
the actual thing, but which furnish the necessary tools for the manufacture, without which the sev-YOUNG SOCRATES: True.
eral arts could not fulfil their appointed work, are co-operative; but those which make the things them-STRANGER: Then the next thing will be to sepa-selves are causal.
rate them, in order that the argument may proceed in a regular manner?
YOUNG SOCRATES: A very reasonable distinction.
YOUNG SOCRATES: By all means.
STRANGER: Thus the arts which make spindles, combs, and other instruments of the production of STRANGER: Let us consider, in the first place, that clothes, may be called co-operative, and those which there are two kinds of arts entering into everything treat and fabricate the things themselves, causal.
which we do.