[596d]
he said. “Are you
incredulous?” said I. “Tell me, do you deny altogether
the possibility of such a craftsman, or do you admit that in a sense there
could be such a creator of all these things, and in another sense not? Or do
you not perceive that you yourself would be able to make all these things in
a way?” “And in what way,1 I ask you,” he
said. “There is no difficulty,” said I, “but
it is something that the craftsman can make everywhere and quickly. You
could do it most quickly if you should choose to take a mirror and carry it
about everywhere.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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