case everything is thrown down where it chanced, whereas those others
have everything arranged, each in its appointed place?

Quite right (he answered), and the phrase implies that everything is
orderly arranged, not in the first chance place, but in that to which
it naturally belongs.

Crit. Yes, the case is to the point, I think, and does involve another
economic principle.

Soc. What, then, if I exhibit to you a third contrast, which bears on
the condition of domestic slaves? On the one side you shall see them
fettered hard and fast, as I may say, and yet for ever breaking their
chains and running away. On the other side the slaves are loosed, and
free to move, but for all that, they choose to work, it seems; they
are constant to their masters. I think you will admit that I here
point out another function of economy[4] worth noting.

[4] Or, "economical result."

Crit. I do indeed--a feature most noteworthy.

Soc. Or take, again, the instance of two farmers engaged in
cultivating farms[5] as like as possible. The one had never done
asserting that agriculture has been his ruin, and is in the depth of
despair; the other has all he needs in abundance and of the best, and
how acquired?--by this same agriculture.

[5] {georgias}. See Hartman, "An. Xen." p. 193. Hold. cf. Plat.
"Laws," 806 E. Isocr. "Areop." 32.