| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: of nonsense.' 'You are young, Socrates, and therefore naturally regard the
opinions of men; the time will come when philosophy will have a firmer hold
of you, and you will not despise even the meanest things. But tell me, is
your meaning that things become like by partaking of likeness, great by
partaking of greatness, just and beautiful by partaking of justice and
beauty, and so of other ideas?' 'Yes, that is my meaning.' 'And do you
suppose the individual to partake of the whole, or of the part?' 'Why not
of the whole?' said Socrates. 'Because,' said Parmenides, 'in that case
the whole, which is one, will become many.' 'Nay,' said Socrates, 'the
whole may be like the day, which is one and in many places: in this way
the ideas may be one and also many.' 'In the same sort of way,' said
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: meadows to smell of young grass, even in the thickest of
our streets, the country hilltops find out a young man's
eyes, and set his heart beating for travel and pure air.
CHAPTER VII.
THE VILLA QUARTERS.
MR. RUSKIN'S denunciation of the New Town of
Edinburgh includes, as I have heard it repeated, nearly
all the stone and lime we have to show. Many however
find a grand air and something settled and imposing in
the better parts; and upon many, as I have said, the
confusion of styles induces an agreeable stimulation of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: been one long story of oppression at the hands of more muscular, physically
powerful and pugilistic peoples; whom we find first making bricks under the
lash of the Egyptian, and later hanging his harp as an exile among the
willow-trees of Babylon; who, for eighteen hundred years, has been
trampled, tortured, and despised beneath the feet of the more physically
powerful and pugilistic, but not more vital, keen, intelligent, or
persistent races of Europe; has, today, by the slow turning of the wheel of
life, come uppermost. The Egyptian task-master and warrior have passed;
what the Babylonian was we know no more, save for a few mud tablets and
rock inscriptions recording the martial victories; but the once captive Jew
we see today in every city and every street; until at last, the descendants
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