| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: Platonic marriage. In the first place, history shows that wherever
polygamy has been largely allowed the race has deteriorated. One man to
one woman is the law of God and nature. Nearly all the civilized peoples
of the world at some period before the age of written records, have become
monogamists; and the step when once taken has never been retraced. The
exceptions occurring among Brahmins or Mahometans or the ancient Persians,
are of that sort which may be said to prove the rule. The connexions
formed between superior and inferior races hardly ever produce a noble
offspring, because they are licentious; and because the children in such
cases usually despise the mother and are neglected by the father who is
ashamed of them. Barbarous nations when they are introduced by Europeans
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Art of War by Sun Tzu: 61. See SHIH CHI, ch. 47.
62. Lun Yu, XV. 1.
63. I failed to trace this utterance.
64. Supra.
65. Supra.
66. The other four being worship, mourning, entertainment of
guests, and festive rites. See SHU CHING, ii. 1. III. 8, and
CHOU LI, IX. fol. 49.
67. See XIII. ss. 11, note.
68. This is a rather obscure allusion to the TSO CHUAN, where
Tzu-ch`an says: "If you have a piece of beautiful brocade, you
The Art of War |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: remembered it. I'd seen him do it when I was here a
year ago."
He stopped then, and studied a minute--laying for an
"effect"--I knowed it perfectly well. Then he turned
off like he was going to leave the platform, and says,
kind of lazy and indifferent:
"Well, I believe that is all."
Why, you never heard such a howl!--and it come from
the whole house:
"What WAS it you seen him do? Stay where you are,
you little devil! You think you are going to work a body
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