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And will you have a work better done when the workman has many

occupations, or when he has only one?

When he has only one.

Further, there can be no doubt that a work is spoilt when not

done at the right time?

No doubt.

For business is not disposed to wait until the doer of the

business is at leisure; but the doer must follow up what he is

doing, and make the business his first object.

He must.

And if so, we must infer that all things are produced more

plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does

one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time,

and leaves other things.

Undoubtedly.

Then more than four citizens will be required; for the husbandman

will not make his own plough or mattock, or other implements of

agriculture, if they are to be good for anything. Neither will

the builder make his tools-and he too needs many; and in like

manner the weaver and shoemaker.

True.