Page:Aristotle - The Politics, 1905.djvu/46

I. 7from the art of the master and the art of the slave, being a species of hunting or war^[1]. Enough of the distinction between master and slave.

1256 a
8Let us now enquire into property generally, and into the art of money-making, in accordance with our usual method [of resolving a whole into its parts^[2]], for a slave has been shown to be a part of property. The first question is whether the art of money-making is the same with the art of managing a household or a part of it, or instrumental to it; and if the last, whether in the way that the art of making shuttles is instrumental to the art of weaving, or in the way that the casting of bronze is instrumental to the art of the statuary, for they are not instrumental in the same way, but the one provides2 tools and the other material; and by material I mean the substratum out of which any work is made; thus wool is the material of the weaver, bronze of the statuary. Now it is easy to see that the art of household management is not identical with the art of money-making, for the one uses the material which the other provides. And the art which uses household stores can be no other than the art of household management. There is, however, a doubt whether the art of money-making is a part of household management or a distinct3 art. [They appear to be connected]; for the money-maker has to consider whence money and property can be procured; but there are many sorts of property and wealth: there is husbandry and the care and provision of food in general; are 4these parts of the money-making art or distinct arts? Again, there are many sorts of food, and therefore there are many kinds of lives both of animals and men; they must all have food, and the differences in their food have made differences

1. Cp. vii. 14. § 21.
2. Cp. c. I. § 3.