| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: ideas; the real Socrates is already passing into the Platonic one. At a
later stage of the Platonic philosophy we shall find that both the paradox
and the solution of it appear to have been retracted. The Phaedo, the
Gorgias, and the Philebus offer further corrections of the teaching of the
Protagoras; in all of them the doctrine that virtue is pleasure, or that
pleasure is the chief or only good, is distinctly renounced.
Thus after many preparations and oppositions, both of the characters of men
and aspects of the truth, especially of the popular and philosophical
aspect; and after many interruptions and detentions by the way, which, as
Theodorus says in the Theaetetus, are quite as agreeable as the argument,
we arrive at the great Socratic thesis that virtue is knowledge. This is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: "No-o," Beryl drawled. She sounded vague. "I'm undressing farther along.
I'm going to bathe with Mrs. Harry Kember."
"Very well." But Mrs. Fairfield's lips set. She disapproved of Mrs Harry
Kember. Beryl knew it.
Poor old mother, she smiled, as she skimmed over the stones. Poor old
mother! Old! Oh, what joy, what bliss it was to be young...
"You look very pleased," said Mrs. Harry Kember. She sat hunched up on the
stones, her arms round her knees, smoking.
"It's such a lovely day," said Beryl, smiling down at her.
"Oh my dear!" Mrs. Harry Kember's voice sounded as though she knew better
than that. But then her voice always sounded as though she knew something
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: surrender to love, she would have given her all, her life, to be
in his arms again, to meet his lips, to put forever out of his
power any thought of wild sacrifice.
And on the morning of the next day, when Madeline went out upon
the porch, Stillwell, haggard and stern, with a husky, incoherent
word, handed her a message from El Cajon. She read:
El Capitan Stewart captured by rebel soldiers in fight at Agua
Prieta yesterday. He was a sharpshooter in the Federal ranks.
Sentenced to death Thursday at sunset.
XXIV The Ride
"Stillwell!'
The Light of Western Stars |
