YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.
YOUNG SOCRATES: How is that?
STRANGER: The arts of washing and mending, and STRANGER: Carding and one half of the use of the other preparatory arts which belong to the causal the comb, and the other processes of wool-working class, and form a division of the great art of adorn-which separate the composite, may be classed to-ment, may be all comprehended under what we call gether as belonging both to the art of wool-work-the fuller’s art.
ing, and also to one of the two great arts which are of universal application—the art of composition and YOUNG SOCRATES: Very good.
the art of division.
STRANGER: Carding and spinning threads and all YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.
the parts of the process which are concerned with the actual manufacture of a woollen garment form STRANGER: To the latter belong carding and the a single art, which is one of those universally ac-other processes of which I was just now speaking; knowledged,—the art of working in wool.
the art of discernment or division in wool and yarn, which is effected in one manner with the comb and YOUNG SOCRATES: To be sure.
in another with the hands, is variously described under all the names which I just now mentioned.
STRANGER: Of working in wool, again, there are two divisions, and both these are parts of two arts YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.
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