When Philosophers Were KingsSunstone Press, 2003 - 358 σελίδες As the Confederacy celebrates its victory over Fort Sumter, Socrates Best and his wife, Ellen, are living in Northeast Texas where Socrates has been teaching school for five years. Educated in the philosophy of Plato and the religion of Knox, Socrates hopes to ignore the war and continue developing ruler guardians who will help make Texas great. But two former students, Buck Malneck and Billy Morse, seize this chance to put their former teacher to the test. Join the conflict or hang--those are their demands. Meanwhile, a thousand miles to the north stands Socrates' cousin Swift. Raised with Plato's Republican philosophies, but steeped in the passionate abolitionism of the Northern Methodists, Swift leaves law school to be part of the Second Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. Portage City explodes with joy as they send Swift's company off to war, but all the well wishing in the world could never prepare Swift for what awaits him at Bull Run. Amidst the revelry, Socrates' youngest brother, Ed, watches with bated breath. This crowd will one day cheer him, he decides, and everyone will know that he is finally a man. Fighting with the Army of the Cumberland across the Southeast, he will learn there is a far greater challenge in life then being a man--staying alive. This novel is based on the true story of a Wisconsin family caught up in the American Civil War, but it is also the story of the multidimensional human soul--spiritual, philosophical, and physical--and how it is affected by war. It is the story of man's ability to love, endure, survive, and find a meaningful purpose for life in a world turned upside down with hate.STEVEN M. BEST is a former military intelligence analyst, and retired chiropractor. After being given an extensive letter written by his great grandmother detailing the family's experiences during the war, Best spent seven and a half years researching and writing his family story. He has visited every village and battlefield presented in this novel from Big Spring and Portage, Wisconsin, in the North, to Dangerfield, Texas, in the South; and from Perryville, Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) and Devil's Backbone in the West; to Perryville, Kentucky and Chickamauga at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in the East. |
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Σελίδα 7
... never know what these people really thought or how they acted , but I have tried to present their personalities in keeping with what is known about the family nearly one - and - a - half centuries later . The Best family genealogy and ...
... never know what these people really thought or how they acted , but I have tried to present their personalities in keeping with what is known about the family nearly one - and - a - half centuries later . The Best family genealogy and ...
Σελίδα 11
... never considered the words of Socrates , penned by Plato : " Until philosophers are kings , and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy , and political greatness and wisdom meet in one , and those commoner natures ...
... never considered the words of Socrates , penned by Plato : " Until philosophers are kings , and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy , and political greatness and wisdom meet in one , and those commoner natures ...
Σελίδα 14
... never talk politics with young ones . Too busy teaching school and working my farm . " A tall , round , fat fellow with a wide - brimmed hat leaned forward at the waist , his scraggly brown hair falling forward to frame his bulbous face ...
... never talk politics with young ones . Too busy teaching school and working my farm . " A tall , round , fat fellow with a wide - brimmed hat leaned forward at the waist , his scraggly brown hair falling forward to frame his bulbous face ...
Σελίδα 15
... never turned back . If they come to fight , it won't be for a planting season . A war like that could last years . You want to fight like that ? Watch your friends die ? " " Shoot ! " said Buck , spraying tobacco and spittle . “ Y'all ...
... never turned back . If they come to fight , it won't be for a planting season . A war like that could last years . You want to fight like that ? Watch your friends die ? " " Shoot ! " said Buck , spraying tobacco and spittle . “ Y'all ...
Σελίδα 18
... never mind . There's plenty of good folks here . It's just they get all passionate when it comes to their states ' rights . To many , this trouble with the government reminds ' em of their problems with Santa Anna and the Mexican rule ...
... never mind . There's plenty of good folks here . It's just they get all passionate when it comes to their states ' rights . To many , this trouble with the government reminds ' em of their problems with Santa Anna and the Mexican rule ...
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Σελίδα 104 - SAVE me, O God ; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Σελίδα 62 - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his Anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Σελίδα 11 - Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, — no, nor the human race, as I believe, — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day...
Σελίδα 55 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand, he shall be surely punished. 21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his money.
Σελίδα 122 - ... looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith ; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Σελίδα 20 - Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
Σελίδα 47 - And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
Σελίδα 56 - Then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
Σελίδα 63 - He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh : the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Σελίδα 83 - The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.