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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: Right soon they embarked, and sat upon the benches, and
sitting orderly they smote the grey sea water with their
oars.
'Thence we sailed onward stricken at heart. And we came to
the land of the Cyclopes, a froward and a lawless folk, who
trusting to the deathless gods plant not aught with their
hands, neither plough: but, behold, all these things spring
for them in plenty, unsown and untilled, wheat, and barley,
and vines, which bear great clusters of the juice of the
grape, and the rain of Zeus gives them increase. These have
neither gatherings for council nor oracles of law, but they
The Odyssey |
