| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: never see that."
So the snow fell, the world froze, and the spelling-books and
exercises went on. But this was not the only case of education
which was progressing at the Sunk Creek Ranch while love was
snowbound.
One morning Scipio le Moyne entered the Virginian's sitting
room--that apartment where Dr. MacBride had wrestled with sin so
courageously all night.
The Virginian sat at his desk. Open books lay around him; a
half-finished piece of writing was beneath his fist; his fingers
were coated with ink. Education enveloped him, it may be said.
The Virginian |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Far out in the jungle Tantor, the elephant, his first
panic of fear allayed, stood with up-pricked ears and
undulating trunk. What was passing through the convolutions
of his savage brain? Could he be searching for Tarzan?
Could he recall and measure the service the ape-man
had performed for him? Of that there can be no doubt.
But did he feel gratitude? Would he have risked his own
life to have saved Tarzan could he have known of the
danger which confronted his friend? You will doubt it.
Anyone at all familiar with elephants will doubt it.
Englishmen who have hunted much with elephants in India
The Jungle Tales of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: still something lacking, now you have agreed that (wealth) is a good to
some and an evil to others. It remains to enquire what constitutes wealth;
for unless you know this, you cannot possibly come to an understanding as
to whether it is a good or an evil. I am ready to assist you in the
enquiry to the utmost of my power: but first let him who affirms that
riches are a good, tell us what, in his opinion, is wealth.
ERASISTRATUS: Indeed, Socrates, I have no notion about wealth beyond that
which men commonly have. I suppose that wealth is a quantity of money
(compare Arist. Pol.); and this, I imagine, would also be Critias'
definition.
SOCRATES: Then now we have to consider, What is money? Or else later on
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