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And how will they proceed? Will each bring the result of his

labours into a common stock?-the individual husbandman, for

example, producing for four, and labouring four times as long and

as much as he need in the provision of food with which he

supplies others as well as himself; or will he have nothing to do

with others and not be at the trouble of producing for them, but

provide for himself alone a fourth of the food in a fourth of the

time, and in the remaining three fourths of his time be employed

in making a house or a coat or a pair of shoes, having no

partnership with others, but supplying himself all his own wants?

Adeimantus thought that he should aim at producing food only and

not at producing everything.

Probably, I replied, that would be the better way; and when I

hear you say this, I am myself reminded that we are not all

alike; there are diversities of natures among us which are

adapted to different occupations.

Very true.