YOUNG SOCRATES: Clearly not.
or parting in knowledge.
STRANGER: Then, shall we say that the king has YOUNG SOCRATES: Tell me of what sort.
a greater affinity to knowledge than to manual arts and to practical life in general?
STRANGER: Such as this: You may remember that we made an art of calculation?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly he has.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.
STRANGER: Then we may put all together as one and the same—statesmanship and the statesman—
STRANGER: Which was, unmistakeably, one of the the kingly science and the king.
arts of knowledge?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Clearly.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.
STRANGER: And now we shall only be proceeding STRANGER: And to this art of calculation which in due order if we go on to divide the sphere of discerns the differences of numbers shall we assign knowledge?
any other function except to pass judgment on their differences?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Very good.
YOUNG SOCRATES: How could we?
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STRANGER: You know that the master-builder does YOUNG SOCRATES: True.
not work himself, but is the ruler of workmen?
STRANGER: Are not all such sciences, no less than YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.
arithmetic and the like, subjects of pure knowledge; and is not the difference between the two classes, STRANGER: He contributes knowledge, not that the one sort has the power of judging only, and manual labour?
the other of ruling as well?
YOUNG SOCRATES: True.
YOUNG SOCRATES: That is evident.
STRANGER: And may therefore be justly said to STRANGER: May we not very properly say, that share in theoretical science?
of all knowledge, there are two divisions—one which rules, and the other which judges?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Quite true.
YOUNG SOCRATES: I should think so.
STRANGER: But he ought not, like the calculator, to regard his functions as at an end when he has STRANGER: And when men have anything to do formed a judgment;—he must assign to the indi-in common, that they should be of one mind is vidual workmen their appropriate task until they surely a desirable thing?
have completed the work.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.