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Stranger
Str. But it is his business, I suppose, not to pass judgement and be done with it and go away, as the calculator did, but to give each of the workmen the proper orders, until they have finished their appointed task.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. You are right.
Stranger
Str. Then all such sciences, and all those that are in the class with calculating, are alike intellectual sciences, but these two classes differ from one another in the matter of judging and commanding. Am I right?
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Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. I think so.
Stranger
Str. Then if we bisected intellectual science as a whole and called one part the commanding and the other the judging part, might we say we had made fitting division?
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Yes, in my opinion.
Stranger
Str. And surely when men are doing anything in common it is pleasant for them to agree.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Of course it is.
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Stranger
Str. On this point, then, so long as we ourselves are in agreement, we need not bother about the opinions of others.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Of course not.
Stranger
Str. Now to which of these two classes is the kingly man to be assigned? Shall we assign him to the art of judging, as a kind of spectator, or rather to the art of commanding, inasmuch as he is a ruler?
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Rather to the latter, of course.
Stranger
Str. Then once more we must see whether the art of command falls into two divisions. It seems to me that it does, and I think there is much the same distinction between the kingly class and the class of heralds as between the art of men who sell what they themselves produce and that of retail dealers.
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Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. How so?
