| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: you would acknowledge that we did?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: Tell me, then, what I was intending to ask you,--whether this
holds universally? Must the same art have the same subject of knowledge,
and different arts other subjects of knowledge?
ION: That is my opinion, Socrates.
SOCRATES: Then he who has no knowledge of a particular art will have no
right judgment of the sayings and doings of that art?
ION: Very true.
SOCRATES: Then which will be a better judge of the lines which you were
reciting from Homer, you or the charioteer?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: "What is that gun firing for?" said Boxer.
"To celebrate our victory!" cried Squealer.
"What victory?" said Boxer. His knees were bleeding, he had lost a shoe
and split his hoof, and a dozen pellets had lodged themselves in his hind
leg.
"What victory, comrade? Have we not driven the enemy off our soil--the
sacred soil of Animal Farm?"
"But they have destroyed the windmill. And we had worked on it for two
years!"
"What matter? We will build another windmill. We will build six windmills
if we feel like it. You do not appreciate, comrade, the mighty thing that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: you are unable to bear, if not all of it. A large
proportion of the power which is too heavy for
you, you should delegate to the people, to its
representatives, reserving for yourself only the
supreme control, that is, the general direction of
the affairs of State."
The Queen had hardly ceased to expound her
views, when the old courtier began eagerly to
refute her arguments, and they started a polite
but very heated discussion.
For a time the young Tsar followed their argu-
The Forged Coupon |
