The best of those that they would have received
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Q1. What does the words in blue mean?
Q2. What does the words in red mean? Did the author say taking from the acorn from the oak tree?
Q3. eclesiastically minded = Christian? Why didn't the author say Christian physician but used this phrase?
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Some of the "downs" in the upward curve of progress would not be there if the individual under treatment obeyedinstructions, We must lead, but we cannot lead too fast. Bacon says, "Solon, being asked whether he had given the Athenians the best Jaws answered, 'The best of those that they would have received.' " We must not toady to the individual under treatment, but we can achieve our objectives by being firm about their smaller components. If we work hard at planting the acorn, we have only to wait for the oak tree. Despite my belief in directional therapy, my objective is to get the individual to do the correct thing by hirnsaf. As an ecclesiastically minded physician put it to me, ''You teach them as though you taught them not. You lea4 them as though you led them not."
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1. "Jaws" seems to be a weird typo -- or perhaps a scanno would be more explicable -- for "laws". e.
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- "Jaws" seems to be a weird typo -- or perhaps a scanno would be more explicable -- for "laws".
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- perhaps better laws could have been formulated, but they would not have been accepted.
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1. "Jaws" seems to be a weird typo -- or perhaps a scanno would be more explicable -- for "laws". "The best of those that they would have received" means, I imagine, "The best of those that they would have been willing to receive", i.e. perhaps better laws could have been formulated, but they would not have been accepted.
2. This is a metaphor. When you plant an acorn (seed of an oak t
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