“It is.”

“Then, thou must on similar grounds admit that unity and goodness are the same; for when the effects of things in their natural working differ not, their essence is one and the same.”

“There is no denying it.”

“Now, dost thou know,” said she, “that all which is abides and subsists so long as it continues one, but so soon as it ceases to be one it perishes and falls to pieces?”

“In what way?”