| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: small income, sufficient for necessaries, should be
secured to all, whether they work or not, and that a
larger income, as much larger as might be warranted
by the total amount of commodities produced, should
be given to those who are willing to engage in some
work which the community recognizes as useful. On
this basis we may build further. I do not think it
is always necessary to pay more highly work which
is more skilled or regarded as socially more useful,
since such work is more interesting and more respected
than ordinary work, and will therefore often be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: MARINA.
Call'd Marina
For I was born at sea.
PERICLES.
At sea! what mother?
MARINA.
My mother was the daughter of a king;
Who died the minute I was born,
As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft
Deliver'd weeping.
PERICLES.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: tyrant full grown.
That is clear.
And if they are unable to expel him, or to get him condemned to death by a
public accusation, they conspire to assassinate him.
Yes, he said, that is their usual way.
Then comes the famous request for a body-guard, which is the device of all
those who have got thus far in their tyrannical career--'Let not the
people's friend,' as they say, 'be lost to them.'
Exactly.
The people readily assent; all their fears are for him--they have none for
themselves.
The Republic |
