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Stranger
Str. And is there a fourth class? Shall we say that there is one, differing from those three, one to which most of the things we have mentioned belong—all clothing, most arms, all circuit walls of earth or of stone, and countless other things? And since they are all made for defence, they may most rightly be called by the collective name of defence, and this may much more properly be considered for the most part the work of the art of building or of weaving than of statesmanship.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Certainly.
Stranger
Str. And should we care to make a fifth class, of ornamentation and painting and all the imitations created by the use of painting and music solely for our pleasure and properly included under one name?
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. What is its name?
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Stranger
Str. It is called by some such name as plaything.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. To be sure.
Stranger
Str. So this one name will properly be applied to all the members of this class; for none of them is practised for any serious purpose, but all of them merely for play.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. I understand that pretty well, too.
Stranger
Str. And shall we not make a sixth class of that which furnishes to all these the materials of which and in which all the arts we have mentioned fashion their works, a very various class, the offspring of many other arts?
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Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. What do you mean?
