Dialogue

 1 Intro|   colours or proportions to his work. He makes mistakes only
 2 Intro| doubting the genuineness of the work. But, when we remember that
 3 Intro|       will be a harder piece of work than the demonstration of
 4 Intro|          6) the relation of the work to the other writings of
 5 Intro|     Statesman, he describes his work as a ‘mass of mythology,’
 6 Intro|       and the shorter and later work, as might be expected, is
 7 Intro|     excellence, as an undoubted work of Plato. The detailed consideration
 8 State|        go on, and not leave the work unfinished. But what shall
 9 State|        workman is merged in his work; he not only knows, but
10 State|         master-builder does not work himself, but is the ruler
11 State|         they have completed the work.~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER:
12 State|      the several parts of their work, lose time in cutting them
13 State|         than by any painting or work of art: to the duller sort
14 State|      mean?~STRANGER: I mean the work of the carder’s art; for
15 State|    co-operative causes in every work of the weaver.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
16 State|      not fulfil their appointed work, are co-operative; but those
17 State|   excellence or beauty of every work of art is due to this observance
18 State|          Socrates, is a greater work than the other, of which
19 State|      which is certainly not the work of the Statesman, but of
20 State|      part to be regarded as the work of the builder or of the
21 State|     ought to go more roughly to work, and to prescribe generally
22 State|    gathering them all into one, work out some nature or idea?~
23 State|    prepare the material for the work, commanding the subsidiary
24 State|          indeed, in this single work, the whole process of royal