| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Euthyphro by Plato: and not to prosecute them is impiety. And please to consider, Socrates,
what a notable proof I will give you of the truth of my words, a proof
which I have already given to others:--of the principle, I mean, that the
impious, whoever he may be, ought not to go unpunished. For do not men
regard Zeus as the best and most righteous of the gods?--and yet they admit
that he bound his father (Cronos) because he wickedly devoured his sons,
and that he too had punished his own father (Uranus) for a similar reason,
in a nameless manner. And yet when I proceed against my father, they are
angry with me. So inconsistent are they in their way of talking when the
gods are concerned, and when I am concerned.
SOCRATES: May not this be the reason, Euthyphro, why I am charged with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: occupied and cultivated the soil. To found their new states it
was necessary to extirpate or to subdue a numerous population,
until civilization has been made to blush for their success. But
North America was only inhabited by wandering tribes, who took no
thought of the natural riches of the soil, and that vast country
was still, properly speaking, an empty continent, a desert land
awaiting its
inhabitants.
Everything is extraordinary in America, the social condition
of the inhabitants, as well as the laws; but the soil upon which
these institutions are founded is more extraordinary than all the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: back by Col. Zane, who advised him not to wander far from the settlement. This
admonition, kind and brotherly though it was, annoyed Isaac. Like all the
Zanes he had born in him an intense love for the solitude of the wilderness.
There were times when nothing could satisfy him but the calm of the deep
woods.
One of these moods possessed him now. Courageous to a fault and daring where
daring was not always the wiser part, Isaac lacked the practical sense of the
Colonel and the cool judgment of Jonathan. Impatient of restraint, independent
in spirit, and it must be admitted, in his persistence in doing as he liked
instead of what he ought to do, he resembled Betty more than he did his
brothers.
Betty Zane |
