| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: the garments, not for the sake of merely having them written in these
places and making a show of them, as did the Jews, but that we might
have our eyes constantly fixed upon them, and have them always in our
memory, and that we might practice them in all our actions and ways,
and every one make them his daily exercise in all cases, in every
business and transaction, as though they were written in every place
wherever he would look, yea, wherever he walks or stands. Thus there
would be occasion enough, both at home in our own house and abroad with
our neighbors, to practice the Ten Commandments, that no one need run
far for them.
From this it again appears how highly these Ten Commandments are to be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: Simonides, but apparently only with the intention of flattering him into
absurdities. First a distinction is drawn between (Greek) to be, and
(Greek) to become: to become good is difficult; to be good is easy. Then
the word difficult or hard is explained to mean 'evil' in the Cean dialect.
To all this Prodicus assents; but when Protagoras reclaims, Socrates slily
withdraws Prodicus from the fray, under the pretence that his assent was
only intended to test the wits of his adversary. He then proceeds to give
another and more elaborate explanation of the whole passage. The
explanation is as follows:--
The Lacedaemonians are great philosophers (although this is a fact which is
not generally known); and the soul of their philosophy is brevity, which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: amusement could they have found than to plan their future? Side by
side on the verandah they must have been looking at the brig, the
third party in that fascinating game. Without her there would have
been no future. She was the fortune and the home, and the great
free world for them. Who was it that likened a ship to a prison?
May I be ignominiously hanged at a yardarm if that's true. The
white sails of that craft were the white wings - pinions, I
believe, would be the more poetical style - well, the white
pinions, of their soaring love. Soaring as regards Jasper. Freya,
being a woman, kept a better hold of the mundane connections of
this affair.
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