Dialogue

 1 Intro|           concerned with lifeless matter, but has the task of managing
 2 Intro|          Which do you prefer? ‘No matter.’ Very good, Socrates, and
 3 Intro|         necessary imperfection of matter; there is also a numerical
 4 Intro|         be the disorganisation of matter: the latent seeds of a former
 5 State|       rather, allow me to put the matter in another way.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
 6 State|    management?~YOUNG SOCRATES: No matter;—whichever suggests itself
 7 State| discussion, we had better let the matter drop, and give the reason
 8 State|          off was the admixture of matter in him; this was inherent
 9 State|         if at all, as a secondary matter; and reason tells us, that
10 State|      error which prevails in this matter.~YOUNG SOCRATES: What do
11 State|         all alien and uncongenial matter has been separated from
12 State|          STRANGER: Let me put the matter in another way: I suppose