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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: numbers shall we assign any other function except to pass judgment on their
differences?
YOUNG SOCRATES: How could we?
STRANGER: You know that the master-builder does not work himself, but is
the ruler of workmen?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.
STRANGER: He contributes knowledge, not manual labour?
YOUNG SOCRATES: True.
STRANGER: And may therefore be justly said to share in theoretical
science?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Quite true.
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