| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: presently introduce some of his exploits and hardships, in
comparison with which the state of things at the beacon bore
an aspect of comfort and happiness. Looking to their slender
stock of provisions, and their perilous and uncertain chance
of speedy relief, he would launch out into an account of one
of his expeditions in the North Sea, when the vessel, being
much disabled in a storm, was driven before the wind with the
loss of almost all their provisions; and the ship being much
infested with rats, the crew hunted these vermin with great
eagerness to help their scanty allowance. By such means Glen
had the address to make his companions, in some measure,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Meno by Plato: things; but I learn from you that I am utterly at fault, and I dare say
that you are right. And now I wish that you, on your part, would tell me
to whom among the Athenians he should go. Whom would you name?
ANYTUS: Why single out individuals? Any Athenian gentleman, taken at
random, if he will mind him, will do far more good to him than the
Sophists.
SOCRATES: And did those gentlemen grow of themselves; and without having
been taught by any one, were they nevertheless able to teach others that
which they had never learned themselves?
ANYTUS: I imagine that they learned of the previous generation of
gentlemen. Have there not been many good men in this city?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: deafness, dumbness, blindness, and they shall not understand.
O ye who do believe! eat of the good things wherewith we have
provided you, and give thanks unto God if it be Him ye serve. He has
only forbidden for you what is dead, and blood, and flesh of swine,
and whatsoever has been consecrated to other than God; but he who is
forced, neither revolting nor transgressing, it is in no sin for
him; verily, God is forgiving and merciful.
Verily, those who hide what God has revealed of the Book, and sell
it for a little price, they shall eat nothing in their bellies save
fire; and God will not speak to them on the day of resurrection, nor
will He purify them, but for them is grievous woe.
The Koran |
