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Well, I said, and hunger and thirst, and the desires in general,

and again willing and wishing,-all these you would refer to the

classes already mentioned. You would say-would you not?-that the

soul of him who desires is seeking after the object of his

desire; or that he is drawing to himself the thing which he

wishes to possess: or again, when a person wants anything to be

given him, his mind, longing for the realization of his desire,

intimates his wish to have it by a nod of assent, as if he had

been asked a question?

Very true.

And what would you say of unwillingness and dislike and the

absence of desire; should not these be referred to the opposite

class of repulsion and rejection?

Certainly.

Admitting this to be true of desire generally, let us suppose a

particular class of desires, and out of these we will select

hunger and thirst, as they are termed, which are the most obvious

of them?

Let us take that class, he said.

The object of one is food, and of the other drink?

Yes.