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Then carpenters, and smiths, and many other artisans, will be

sharers in our little State, which is already beginning to grow?

True.

Yet even if we add neatherds, shepherds, and other herdsmen, in

order that our husbandmen may have oxen to plough with, and

builders as well as husbandmen may have draught cattle, and

curriers and weavers fleeces and hides,-still our State will not

be very large.

That is true; yet neither will it be a very small State which

contains all these.

Then, again, there is the situation of the city-to find a place

where nothing need be imported is wellnigh impossible.

Impossible.

Then there must be another class of citizens who will bring the

required supply from another city?

There must.

But if the trader goes empty-handed, having nothing which they

require who would supply his need, he will come back

empty-handed.

That is certain.