| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: we renounce? For both of them together are certainly not in harmony; they
do not accord or agree: for how can they be said to agree if everything is
assumed to have only one opposite and not more than one, and yet folly,
which is one, has clearly the two opposites--wisdom and temperance? Is not
that true, Protagoras? What else would you say?
He assented, but with great reluctance.
Then temperance and wisdom are the same, as before justice and holiness
appeared to us to be nearly the same. And now, Protagoras, I said, we must
finish the enquiry, and not faint. Do you think that an unjust man can be
temperate in his injustice?
I should be ashamed, Socrates, he said, to acknowledge this, which
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Well, be glad that you can hear them, and be glad they are so near us, --
For I have heard the stars of heaven, and they were nearer still.
All within an hour it is that I have heard them calling,
And though I pray for them to cease, I know they never will;
For their music on my heart, though you may freeze it, will fall always,
Like summer snow that never melts upon a mountain-top.
Do you hear them? Do you hear them overhead -- the children -- singing?
Do you hear the children singing? . . . God, will you make them stop!"
"And what now in his holy name have you to do with mountains?
We're back to town again, my dear, and we've a dance tonight.
Frozen hearts and falling music? Snow and stars, and -- what the devil!
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: the same breed,[33] I will now set forth.
[33] Or, "The features, points, qualities, whether physical or other,
which characterise the better indidivuals." But what does Xenophon
mean by {tou autou genous}?
IV
In the first place, this true type of hound should be of large build;
and, in the next place, furnished with a light small head, broad and
flat in the snout,[1] well knit and sinewy, the lower part of the
forehead puckered into strong wrinkles; eyes set well up[2] in the
head, black and bright; forehead large and broad; the depression
between the eyes pronounced;[3] ears long[4] and thin, without hair on
|
