Category: Humour
We were sitting on the pavement in our usual way, considering all things, and examining into them one at a time. There were with me Lysis and his younger brother Phaelon, two youths whom I loved for their inquiring dispositions and habit of always asking why. As we were sittin...
We were sitting on the pavement in our usual way, considering all things, and examining into them one at a time. There were with me Lysis and his younger brother Phaelon, two yo...
2. BOOK III then explained to them as well as I could about the forty-eight States that make up the United States, making it plain that each State had its own government, but that there w...
3. BOOK III‘Why, no,’ I said, ‘they are the least free of all the peoples of the earth. For they live under a tyrant, and one not a whit more merciful than was Procrustes. For Procrustes f...
4. BOOK IVAfter we had discussed these clubs a little longer, and I had given them the full speech I would have made in Hootsville, Lysis said: ‘And is it true, Socrates, that the lecture...
5. BOOK V‘Does it not seem to you, O Lysis and Phaelon, that these Americans suffer many grievous evils, and do not know where they are, and may truly be called Atlantis, the Lost Contin...
6. part I will take care to think of them like that. For as Ariadne had a‘That would not be easy,’ I answered. ‘For they are compiled with great solemnity and reverence and are the nearest things in America to sacred objects. The ritual of compilatio...
7. BOOK VII thought for a moment and then said: ‘They are not comely like our Greek youths and they would not be an ornament to Athens. I do not think they want any education.’