Dialogue

1 Repub|    they cease to be skilled artists. No artist or sage or ruler
2 Repub| there be any good which all artists have in common, that is
3 Repub|  not derived by the several artists from their respective arts.
4 Repub|     to be extended to other artists, and are they also to be
5 Repub|     their own soul. Let our artists rather be those who are
6 Repub|    which is not designed by artists who imitate the heavenly
7 Repub|  kinds, and there are three artists who superintend them: God,
8 Repub|    or only the creations of artists? ~The latter. ~As they are