Dialogue

 1 Repub|         healer of the sick or a maker of money? And remember that
 2 Repub|        a table. ~True. ~And the maker of either of them makes
 3 Repub|      Who is he? ~One who is the maker of all the works of all
 4 Repub|      mean that there is no such maker or creator, or that in one
 5 Repub|      one sense there might be a maker of all these things, but
 6 Repub|      real bed. ~And what of the maker of the bed? were you not
 7 Repub|        say that the work of the maker of the bed, or of any other
 8 Repub|  say-for no one else can be the maker? ~No. ~There is another
 9 Repub|      superintend them: God, the maker of the bed, and the painter? ~
10 Repub|       he desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular
11 Repub|      real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and
12 Repub|        as the natural author or maker of the bed? ~Yes, he replied;
13 Repub|    carpenter-is not he also the maker of the bed? ~Yes. ~But would
14 Repub|       the painter a creator and maker? ~Certainly not. ~Yet if
15 Repub|      not. ~Yet if he is not the maker, what is he in relation
16 Repub|       in the third-not an image maker or imitator-and if you are
17 Repub|  another point: The imitator or maker of the image knows nothing
18 Repub|         he must indicate to the maker the good or bad qualities
19 Repub| excellence or badness of it the maker will only attain to a correct