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儿童西方文化导读第四册：
目录
1.To My Daughter----F.Scott Fitzgerald
2.The Declaration of Independence----Thomas Jefferson
3.On Self-Discipline----Aristotle
4.What a Baby Costs---Edhar Guest
5.If You Were----Author Unknown
6.The Character of a Happy Life---Henry Wotton
7.Thinking on Friendship---William Tyler Page
8.The Athenian Oath---Ancient Athens
9.The American's Creed---Wlliam Tyler Page
10.The Ten Commandments----The Bible
11.The Quality of Mercy---William Shakespeare
12.Too Dear For The Whistle---Benjamin Franklin
13.The Farmer and His Sons---Aesop
14.The Brave Mice---Aesop
To My Daughter
By F . Scott Fitzgerald
Things to worry about :
Worry about courage
Worry about cleanliness
Worry about efficiency
Worry about horsemanship ……
Things not to worry about :
Don’t worry about popular opinion
Don’t worry about dolls
Don’t worry about the past
Don’t worry about the future
Don’t worry about growing up
Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you Don’t worry about popular opinion
Don’t worry about triumph
Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault Don’t worry about mosquitoes
Don’t worry about flies
Don’t worry about insects in general
Don’t worry about parents
Don’t worry about disappointments
Don’t worry about pleasures
Don’t worry about satisfactions
Things to think about :
What am I really aiming at ?
How good am I in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to :
(a) Scholarship
(b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them ?
(c) Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it ?
The Declaration of Independence
By Thomas Jefferson
When in the course of human events , it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume among the Powers of the earth , the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them , a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation . — We hold these truths to be self －evident , that all men are created equal , that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights , that among these are Life , Liberty
and the pursuit of Happiness . — That to secure these rights , Governments are instituted among Men , deriving their just powers form the consent of the governed , — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends , it is Right of the People to alter or to abolish it , and to institute new Government , laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form , as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness .
On Self —Discipline
By Aristotle
Moral virtues come from habit … They are in us neither by nature , nor in spite of nature , but we are furnished by nature with a capacity for receiving them , and we develop them through habit … These virtues we ac quire by first exercising them , as in the case of other arts . Whatever we learn to do , we learn by actually doing it : men come to be builders , for instance , by building , and harp players , by playing the harp . In the same way , by doing just acts we come to be just ; by doing self — controlled acts , we come to be self —controlled ; and by doing brave acts , we become brave ……
What a Baby Costs
