The Psychological Solution-12

Well, after five years of training in this recondite doctrine of Ideas, this art of perceiving significant forms and causal sequences and ideal potentialities amid the welter and hazard of sensation; 

recondite，深奥的

after five years of training in the application of this principle to the behavior of men and the conduct of states; 

after this long preparation from childhood through youth and into the maturity of thirty-five; 

surely now these perfect products are ready to assume the royal purple and the highest functions of public life?—surely they are at last the philosopher-kings who are to rule and to free the human race? 

royal purple，黄袍加身

Alas! not yet. 

Their education is still unfinished. 

For after all it has been, in the main, a theoretical education; 

something else is needed. 

Let these Ph.D.'s pass down now from the heights of philosophy into the "cave" of the world of men and things; 

generalizations and abstractions are worthless except they be tested by this concrete world; 

let our students enter that world with no favor shown them; 

they shall compete with men of business, with hard-headed grasping individualists, with men of brawn and men of cunning; 

in this mart of strife they shall learn from the book of life itself; 

they shall hurt their fingers and scratch their philosophic shins on the crude realities of the world; 

they shall earn their bread and butter by the sweat of their high brows. 

And this last and sharpest test shall go on ruthlessly for fifteen long years. 

Some of our perfect products will break under the pressure, and be submerged by this last great wave of elimination. 

Those that survive, scarred and fifty, sobered and self-reliant, shorn of scholastic vanity by the merciless friction of life, and armed now with all the wisdom that tradition and experience, culture and conflict, can coöperate to give—these men at last shall automatically become the rulers of the state.

[ 00’22” ] recondite (艰深晦涩) 

[ 00’48” ] causal (因果关系的；有原因的；区分casual) 

[ 01’00” ] welter (混乱) 

[ 01’02” ] amid (在其中) 

[ 05’35” ] concrete (现实的，具体的，可被触摸的) 

[ 07’11” ] hard-headed (固执己见的) 

[ 08’07” ] shin (小腿) 

[ 08’28” ] earn one's bread and butter (营生) 

[ 08’45” ] high brows (高深难懂的学问) 

[ 09’57” ] submerge (淹没) 

[ 10’38” ] self-reliant (自力更生的) 

[ 10’49” ] shear (剪切；修剪)