| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: Eleusinion." See Leake, op. cit. i. 296.
[7] Lit. "nor will I omit how the lances shall as little as possible
overlap one another."
[8] Lit. "Every trooper should be at pains to keep his lance straight
between the ears of his charger, if these weapons are to be
distinct and terror-striking, and at the same time to appear
numerous."
As soon as they have ceased from the charge at full gallop, the pace
should at once be changed; and now, with footing slow, let them
retrace their course back to the temples. In this way every detail
characteristic of knightly pageantry[9] will have been displayed to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: and said:
"My brains work beautifully today. I'm quite proud of them. Now, listen! If
we attempt to escape through the doors of the palace we shall surely be
captured. And, as we can't escape through the ground, there is only one
other thing to be done. We must escape through the air!"
He paused to note the effect of these words; but all his hearers seemed
puzzled and unconvinced.
"The Wonderful Wizard escaped in a balloon," he continued. "We don't know
how to make a balloon, of course; but any sort of thing that can
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fly through the air can carry us easily. So I suggest that my friend the Tin
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: magnet, and suspends in the solutions various magnetic bodies.
He proves that when the solution is stronger than the body plunged in
it, the body, though magnetic, is repelled; and when an elongated
piece of it is surrounded by the solution, it sets, like a
diamagnetic body, equatorially between the excited poles. The same
body when suspended in a solution of weaker magnetic power than
itself, is attracted as a whole, while an elongated portion of it
sets axially.
And now theoretic questions rush in upon him. Is this new force a
true repulsion, or is it merely a differential attraction? Might not
the apparent repulsion of diamagnetic bodies be really due to the
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