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Athenian
And such a thing is most justly called a living creature?Cleinias
Yes.Athenian
On the most likely account there are to be reckoned five solid bodies,1 from which one might fashion things fairest and best; but all the rest of creation has a single shape,2 for there is nothing that could come to be without a body and never possessing any color at all, except only that really most divine creature, the soul. And this alone, one may say, has the business of fashioning and manufacturing,
And such a thing is most justly called a living creature?Cleinias
Yes.Athenian
On the most likely account there are to be reckoned five solid bodies,1 from which one might fashion things fairest and best; but all the rest of creation has a single shape,2 for there is nothing that could come to be without a body and never possessing any color at all, except only that really most divine creature, the soul. And this alone, one may say, has the business of fashioning and manufacturing,
