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Stranger
Str. Shall we say, then, that the king is more akin to the intellectual than to the manual or the practical in general?
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Certainly.
Stranger
Str. Shall we, therefore, put all these together as one—the political art and the statesman, the royal art and the king?
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Obviously.
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Stranger
Str. Then we should be proceeding in due order if we should next divide intellectual science?
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Certainly.
Stranger
Str. Now pay attention to see if we can perceive any natural line of cleavage in it.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Tell us of what sort it is.
Stranger
Str. Of this sort. We recognized a sort of art of calculation.
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Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Yes.
Stranger
Str. It is, I suppose, most certainly one of the intellectual arts.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Of course.
Stranger
Str. And shall we grant to the art of calculation, when it has found out the difference between numbers, any further function than that of passing judgement on them when found out?
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. No, certainly not.
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Stranger
Str. Every architect, too, is a ruler of workmen, not a workman himself.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Yes.
Stranger
Str. As supplying knowledge, not manual labor.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. True.
Stranger
Str. So he may fairly be said to participate in intellectual science.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Certainly.
