An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. The stars and the cloudless sky are our own contemporaries, nineteen and a half centuries younger than we know them; but you w…
It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present] would have, on his right, Lady Britomart's writing table, with the lady herself busy at it; a smaller writing table behind him on his left; t…
"Kenalilah dirimu." (Socrates) .... Sayang sekali, banyakk orang mencurahkan sebagian besar waktu dan tenaga mereka dengan tujuan untuk mengerti orang lain, sedangkan kesadaran sendiri diabaikan. Mereka sering berkata. "Saya tahu siapa kau. Kau tidak dapat membodohi saya. "Saya tidak mengerti mengapa saya lakukan itu?". Dewasa ini banyak orang dilanda oaleh desakan kesibukan dari kekomplekan …