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发信人: rex (一生悬命), 信区: English
标 题: Famous Speech(1)
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Thu Jul 16 09:58:58 1998), 站内信件
作 家: oli (西西 ) on board 'english'
题 目: Famous Speech (1)
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日 期: Sat Aug 2 21:34:45 1997
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发信人: scyz (该走就走喽^_^), 信区: ENGLISH
标 题: Famous Speech(1)
发信站: 碧海青天 (Wed Jul 30 03:05:34 1997), 转信
The funeral oration of Pericle
Our constiution does not copy the laws of neigboring states;we
are rather a pattern to others than imitator ourselves.Its administration
favors the many instead of the few;this is why it is called a democracy.
If we look to laws,they afford equal justice to all in their private
differences ; if to socical standing,advancement in public life falls to
reputation for capacity,class consideration not being allowed to interfere
with merit;nor again does poverty bar the way;if a man is able to serve
the states,he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition.the freedom
which we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life.There,
far from exercising a jealous surveillance over each other we do not feel
called upon to be angry with our neighbour for doing what he likes,or
even to i ndulge in those injurious looks which can not fail to be offensive,
although they inflict no positive penalty.But all this ease in our
private relations does not make us lawless as citizens.Against this fear is
our chief ssafeguard,taeching us to obey the magistrates and the laws,
particularly such as regards the protection of the injured,whether they are
actually on the staute book,or belong to that code which,although unwritten,
yet cannot be broken without ackwonledged disgrace.
Further,we provide plenty of means for the mind to refresh itself from
business.We celebrate games and sacrifices all the year round,and the elegance
of our private establishments from a daily sources of pleasure and helps to
banish the spleen;while the magnitude of our city draws the produce of the
word to our harbor,so that to the Athenian the fruits of other countries are
as familiar a luxury as those of their own.
If we turn to our military policy,there also we differ from our antagonist.
we throw upon our city to the word,and never by alien acts exclude foreigners
from any opportunity of learning or observing,although the eyes of any enemy
may occassionally profit by our liberty;trusting less in system and policy
than to the native sprit of our citizens;while in education ,where our rivals
from their cradles by a plainful discpline seek after manliness,at Athens we
live exactlyas we please, and yet are just as ready to encounter every legimate
danger.In proof of this it may be noticed that the Lacedaemonians do not invade
our country alone,but bring with them all their conferdates;while we Athenians
advance unsupported into the territory of a neighbour, and fighting upon a
foreign soil usually vanquish with ease men who are defending their homes.Our
unites forece was never yet encountered by any enemy ,because we have at once
to attend to our marine and to dispatch our citizens by land upon a hundred
different services;so that ,wherever they engage with some such fraction of
our strength a success against a detachment is magnified into a victory over
the nation,and a defeat into a reverse suffered at the hands of the entire
people.And yet if with habits not of labor but of ease,and courage not of
art but of nature, we are still willing to encounter danger,we have the
double advantage of escaping the experience of hardship in anticipation and
of facing them in hour of need as fearlessly as those who are never free from
them.
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