YOUNG SOCRATES: To find the path is your busi-STRANGER: Then let us divide sciences in general ness, Stranger, and not mine.
into those which are practical and those which are purely intellectual.
STRANGER: Yes, Socrates, but the discovery, when once made, must be yours as well as mine.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Let us assume these two divisions of science, which is one whole.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Very good.
STRANGER: And are ‘statesman,’ ‘king,’ ‘master,’
STRANGER: Well, and are not arithmetic and cer-or ‘householder,’ one and the same; or is there a tain other kindred arts, merely abstract knowledge, science or art answering to each of these names?
wholly separated from action?
Or rather, allow me to put the matter in another way.
YOUNG SOCRATES: True.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Let me hear.
STRANGER: But in the art of carpentering and all other handicrafts, the knowledge of the workman STRANGER: If any one who is in a private station is merged in his work; he not only knows, but he has the skill to advise one of the public physicians, also makes things which previously did not exist.
must not he also be called a physician?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.