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Now all Art has to do with production, and contrivance, and

seeing how any of those things may be produced which may either

be or not be, and the origination of which rests with the maker

and not with the thing made.

And, so neither things which exist or come into being

necessarily, nor things in the way of nature, come under the

province of Art, because these are self-originating. And since

Making and Doing are distinct, Art must be concerned with the

former and not the latter. And in a certain sense Art and Fortune

are concerned with the same things, as, Agathon says by the way,

"Art Fortune loves, and is of her beloved."

So Art, as has been stated, is "a certain state of mind, apt to

Make, conjoined with true Reason;" its absence, on the contrary,

is the same state conjoined with false Reason, and both are

employed upon Contingent matter.

Chapter V.

As for Practical Wisdom, we shall ascertain its nature by

examining to what kind of persons we in common language ascribe

it.[16]