TWO PARABLES.
A Professor of Ichthyology was delivering his lecture. The students were listening—well, pretty attentively as students go—not to mention students ofIchthyology.
“The carp, gentlemen, the carp——”
Then followed some facts about the carp.
“Now the carp, gentlemen, as I was saying——”
At that moment a carp came swimming into the lectureroom. How the beast did it, considering how dry it was there, does not concern us. The poor students had suffered from drought for ever so long,—and, after all, a carp is no better than a student.
“There he is himself!” they cried, with one voice.
So they left the professor in the lurch with his lecture on the carp, and went to look at the carp for themselves. Now I think this quite right and natural on the part of the students. But I wish we could do the same, and try to look at men—and women too—for ourselves, instead of listening to somebody’s dicta about Man!
Multatuli.(Ideen.)
Multatuli.(Ideen.)
Multatuli.(Ideen.)
Multatuli.
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“AM I NOT JUST LIKE PLATO?”
“AM I NOT JUST LIKE PLATO?”
“AM I NOT JUST LIKE PLATO?”