“Come now with me,” he cried, “and I will soon prove that I am right.” So he took him into the public gardens and showed him a statue of Hercules overcoming the Lion and tearing his mouth in two.

“That is all very well,” said the Lion, “but proves nothing, for it was a man who made the statue.”

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

Key points

by reason of 因?yàn)?/p>

contend 主張

Hercules赫拉克勒斯

（希臘神話中的大力士）

in general 通常

intelligence 智慧

overcome 征服

relative 相對(duì)的

represent 描繪

tear 撕裂；眼淚

獅子和雕像

一個(gè)人和一頭獅子正在爭(zhēng)論誰(shuí)更厲害，人認(rèn)為他和他的伙伴比獅子更強(qiáng)壯，因?yàn)槿祟惛兄腔邸?/p>

“跟我來，”男人喊道，“我會(huì)向你證明我是對(duì)的。”他帶獅子來到公園，讓獅子看一座雕像—赫拉克勒斯腳踩一頭獅子，并將獅子的嘴撕成兩半。

“好吧，”獅子說道，“但這也證明不了什么，因?yàn)檫@座雕像出自人類之手。”

我們很容易將事實(shí)描繪成自己所希望的樣子。