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And shall we receive into our State all the three styles, or one

only of the two unmixed styles? or would you include the mixed?

I should prefer only to admit the pure imitator of virtue.

Yes, I said, Adeimantus, but the mixed style is also very

charming: and indeed the pantomimic, which is the opposite of the

one chosen by you, is the most popular style with children and

their attendants, and with the world in general.

I do not deny it.

But I suppose you would argue that such a style is unsuitable to

our State, in which human nature is not twofold or manifold, for

one man plays one part only?

Yes; quite unsuitable.

And this is the reason why in our State, and in our State only,

we shall find a shoemaker to be a shoemaker and not a pilot also,

and a husbandman to be a husbandman and not a dicast also, and a

soldier a soldier and not a trader also, and the same throughout?

True, he said.