A question about the meaning of a sentence which I cannot be sure what it is Hello, my dear friends, I am reading Robinson Crusoe in English. I am particularly concerned about the moral and religious thoughts of the protagonist - Robinson. I am not sure what is the meaning of one of the sentences that iterest me. Let me tell you something about the context of this: Robinson meditates upon the reason which led God to the decision to deprive the Indians from His knowledge (from the values of the Chrisianity I would say). So, is that, according Crusoe, a consequence of the guilt of these poeple or not? In a Bulgarian translation (my native language is the Bulagarian) the sentence is translated in a way, according to which Robison says that the Indians are not deprived of the God's knowledge because of their sins, it must be something else. Here it is the sentence from the novel: "From hence I sometimes was led too far, to invade the sovereignty of Providence, and, as it were, arraign the justice of so arbitrary a disposition of things, that should hide that sight from some, and reveal it to others, and yet expect a like duty from both; but I shut it up, and checked my thoughts with this conclusion: first, that we did not know by what light and law these should be condemned; but that as God was necessarily, and by the nature of His being, infinitely holy and just , so it could not be, but if these creatures were all sentenced to absence from Himself, it was on account of sinning against that light which, as the Scripture says, was a law to themselves, and by such rules as their consciences would acknowledge to be just, though the foundation was not discovered to us; and secondly, that still as we all are the clay in the hand of the potter, no vessel could say to him, “Why hast thou formed me thus?”

Здравствуйте Здравствуйте, Меня зовут Петр. Я из Болгарии. Мне очень хочеться знать что-нибудь по-русский, потому що русская культура мень очень нравиться. Если я научить русский язык, я буду читать русские класически книг - об Достоевский, Толстой... Каждой день, когда я смотрю видео в youtube, я вижу, что в этот сайте есть очень клипе, которае изображает русский человек как сумасшедший, пьяный. Это не правда. Руссия есть замечаталная култура и я уважаю ее людми. Но я боюсь, что я ни мог научить русский очень хорошо, берегу его граматике - она очень трудная для меня. Спасиба.

Trying to express my mental sphere on English © I was walking pensive on a road But a shadow of an unpleasant thought Was trying to dismay my soul By confiding me an eternal law According which every man is destined woe to be. At this moment I stopped and asked myself: “Did we?”. I was close to succumb to the fear But suddenly a noise reached my ear. It was a cricket’s song – a loud one and prolong. Probably the cricket wished something to confide - To the whole world, and was spilling its appeal very wide. “Perhaps he wants to say me that, What seems to be very sad, Is something that we better not to hide But to face it with pride and an open mind”. And you, reader, what do you think? Should a man be incisive and not to look upon his destiny as to the steps which lead to the scaffold? If I have to be honest, after this lecture of the little singer My heart still prefers to linger. (Your corrections are important to me.)

A few words about a Marcus Aurelius’ thought “The idle business of show, plays on the stage, flocks of sheep, herds, exercises with spears, a bone cast to little dogs, a bit of bread into fish-ponds, labourings of ants and burden-carrying, runnings about of frightened little mice, puppets pulled by strings- all alike. It is thy duty then in the midst of such things to show good humour and not a proud air; to understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself”. Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor. He had got inclinations to the Stoic point of view about the statement of the world and to other questions related to the nature, the social and spiritual life of the human being. His thought, which is cited above, relates to the connection between the external reality around the Human and his internal world. In point of fact, according Marcus Aurelius’ opinion, there is not any kind of an influence between these two things, or at least from the external environment to the internal human state. This philosopher, and meanwhile an emperor, maintains the idea that there isn’t a power which is able to undermine the peace of the human soul when a strong spirit is shown. If it is so, you are able to “switch off” the things that are happening around and, therefore, free to muse about everything, no matter how unpleasant and unsuitable appears to be round you. Even your health is not significant for the state of your mind. Of course, for most of the people this is nothing more than a utopia. They do not allow the possibility of someone to resist against an external influence – of pain, hunger etc., without the slightest interruption of the internal peace. Well, at all events, it seems very difficult, but who knows. Perhaps it is possible to be achieved. By-and-by, it will be inspiring to see these days a politician with the ideals of Marcus Aurelius, who was one of the most high rated rulers of the Roman empire. Have you seen such one? I feel myself unworthy to speak about this remarkable man’s thinking, especially in this awkward style (I believe it is), but I do wish to improve my English. Someone to correct the mistakes, please. I will be thankful as much.

On Wrath “Moreover, if you choose to view its results and the harm of it, no plague has cost the human race more dear. You will see bloodshed and poisoning, the vile countercharges of criminals, the downfall of cities and whole nations given to destruction, princely persons sold at public auction, houses put to the torch, and conflagration that halts not within the city-walls, but makes great stretches of the country glow with hostile flame. Behold the most glorious cities whose foundations can scarcely be traced — anger cast them down. Behold solitudes stretching lonely for many miles without a single dweller — anger laid them waste”. Citatation of Seneca If the Wrath is not the greatest calamity of the mankind, it is, at least, one of the most destructive human feelings which brings a big number of troubles in variable situations of the social relations. Firstly, its unpleasant consequences may be easy seen in the families of the major part of the people. Those people, who do not take much care about the Anger, its springs and consequences, fall under its attacks. This causes not only their relative’s discomfort, but their own too. That’s why it is a matter of a great importance to any of us to understand how unworthy is to give up the battle against the Wrath and how many troubles the defeat brings. Secondly, is it not the Wrath, which brings lots of problems to the public life, too? In my opinion it is not right to think that the behavior of the powerful persons on the politic horizon nowadays, is not at least determined by the Anger, but only by political maneuvers. In fact, the events which Seneca speaks about, exist in our era, too, although the style he uses to express the destructions, caused by the Wrath, is more suitable for the epic events of some century, which has sank in the Past since long ago.

A few words about the famous Jules Verne's novel - "A Journey to the Interior of the World I just wanted to say some words about the Jules Verne's novel - "A Journey to the Interior of the World". Has anyone of you read it? I have a month ago, and the author's ability to narrate about something that he had never seen or heard about, has astonished me. And although Jules Verne hasn't got a particular scientific education, he was deeply aware with the major and not so major knowledges about the things he wrote about. Perharps this statement is truthful about all Jules Verne's novels. But particularly in this novel, I recognised some hypotetical obstacle that may interpose all author's story. As you may noticed if you have read the novel, beneath the surfice of the globe the main personages in the novel find an entire biological world. But the rays of the Sun couldn't penetrate to this microbiological system. And here is my asking: "Is it possible a boilogical microsystem to exist without the crutual influence of the Sun energy?" Is this energy not neccesary for the reproducing of flora's spicies, and if the answer is "yes", what about the all cyrculation of this biological system that is untouched from the Sun? Of course, this novel is a science - fiction work and my reasoning should not be taken for extremely serious scientific inqueirng, What do you thing about the question? :)