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making it denote care, rather than feeding, and then we ought to have divided the art, for it may still admit of not unimportant divisions.Younger Socrates
What are they?Stranger
There is one by which we might have divided the divine shepherd from the human caretaker.Younger Socrates
Quite right.Stranger
And again it was essential that the art of caretaking thus isolated and assigned to man be divided into two parts.Younger Socrates
On what line of division?Stranger
On that of compulsory and voluntary.Younger Socrates
Why is that?Stranger
Because this was about the point at which we made our mistake before;
What are they?Stranger
There is one by which we might have divided the divine shepherd from the human caretaker.Younger Socrates
Quite right.Stranger
And again it was essential that the art of caretaking thus isolated and assigned to man be divided into two parts.Younger Socrates
On what line of division?Stranger
On that of compulsory and voluntary.Younger Socrates
Why is that?Stranger
Because this was about the point at which we made our mistake before;
