| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: only have relation to themselves in the form of that object. Whether there
are any such cases of reflex relation or not, and whether that sort of
knowledge which we term Temperance is of this reflex nature, has yet to be
determined by the great metaphysician. But even if knowledge can know
itself, how does the knowledge of what we know imply the knowledge of what
we do not know? Besides, knowledge is an abstraction only, and will not
inform us of any particular subject, such as medicine, building, and the
like. It may tell us that we or other men know something, but can never
tell us what we know.
Admitting that there is a knowledge of what we know and of what we do not
know, which would supply a rule and measure of all things, still there
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: still very pleasant and likeable and unaffected. Hypatia is a typical
English girl of a sort never called typical: that is, she has an
opaque white skin, black hair, large dark eyes with black brows and
lashes, curved lips, swift glances and movements that flash out of a
waiting stillness, boundless energy and audacity held in leash._
HYPATIA. _[pouncing on Bentley with no very gentle hand]_ Bentley:
whats the matter? Dont cry like that: whats the use? Whats
happened?
MRS TARLETON. Are you ill, child? _[They get him up. There, there,
pet! It's all right: dont cry _[they put him into a chair]_: there!
there! there! Johnny will go for the doctor; and he'll give you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: Say, 'What! other than God would you bid me serve, O ye ignorant
ones? When He has inspired thee and those before thee that, "If thou
dost associate aught with Him, thy work will surely be in vain, and
thou shalt surely be of those who lose!" Nay, but God do thou serve,
and be of those who do give thanks!'
And they do not value God at His true value; while the earth all
of it is but a handful for Him on the resurrection day, and the
heavens shall be rolled up in His right hand! Celebrated be His
praise! and exalted be He above what they associate with Him! And
the trumpet shall be blown, and those who are in the heavens and in
the earth shall swoon, save whom God pleases. Then it shall be blown
The Koran |
