Dialogue

 1 Intro|              in refusing to admit the division of mankind into Hellenes
 2 Intro|          follows: (1) By a process of division and subdivision we discover
 3 Intro|               the enquiry by making a division of the arts and sciences
 4 Intro|           nature of my mistake.’ Your division was like a division of the
 5 Intro|              Your division was like a division of the human race into Hellenes
 6 Intro|            male and female; or like a division of number into ten thousand
 7 Intro|          class. But to return to your division, you spoke of men and other
 8 Intro|           beasts. This is the sort of division which an intelligent crane
 9 Intro| non-gregarious, omitting the previous division into tame and wild. We forgot
10 Intro|         Thessaly. These suggest a new division into the rearing or management
11 Intro|         categories of composition and division. Carding is of the latter
12 Intro|          delight than in processes of division (compare Phaedr.); he pursues
13 Intro|              rhetoric is based on the division of the characters of mankind
14 Intro|               carry on the process of division until we have arrived at
15 Intro|             contains four examples of division, carried on by regular steps,
16 Intro|              find, in the Philebus, a division of sciences into practical
17 Intro|         defect, like the principle of division in the Phaedrus, receives
18 Intro|               arts of composition and division, in which are contained
19 Intro|               often in the process of division curious results are obtained.
20 Intro|             there is the same love of division, and in both of them the
21 State|            say.~STRANGER: But yet the division will not be the same?~YOUNG
22 State|          whether there is any mark of division in the art of command too.
23 State|           power allows of any further division.~YOUNG SOCRATES: By all
24 State|               assist me in making the division.~YOUNG SOCRATES: At what
25 State|             Certainly.~STRANGER: That division, then, is complete; and
26 State|             were guilty in our recent division?~STRANGER: The error was
27 State|            you could no longer make a division into parts which were also
28 State|             of you, to make a similar division, and set up cranes against
29 State|         source of error in our former division.~YOUNG SOCRATES: How?~STRANGER:
30 State|           there was already implied a division of all animals into tame
31 State|            you, because here is a new division of the management of herds,
32 State|         better. And now attend to the division.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Let me
33 State|              refer the passage to the division into quadrupeds and bipeds,
34 State|         pedestrian animals. The chief division of the latter was the art
35 State|             take the next step in the division?~STRANGER: As before we
36 State|         weaving the same processes of division and subdivision which we
37 State|              causal class, and form a division of the great art of adornment,
38 State|            composition and the art of division.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.~STRANGER:
39 State|             the art of discernment or division in wool and yarn, which
40 State|            dismissing the elements of division which we found there, make
41 State|             other on the principle of division.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Let that
42 State|              Where would you make the division?~STRANGER: As thus: I would
43 State|            assert the great method of division according to species—whether
44 State|            and so we proceeded in the division step by step up to this
45 State|                How would you make the division?~STRANGER: Monarchy divides
46 State|        SOCRATES: On what principle of division?~STRANGER: On the same principle
47 State|          SOCRATES: Yes.~STRANGER: The division made no difference when