| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: trusteeship of the treasury of Hellas?[11] Again, when through the too
cruel exercise of her presidency, as men thought, Athens was deprived
of her empire, is it not the case that even in those days,[12] as soon
as we held aloof from injustice we were once more reinstated by the
islanders, of their own free will, as presidents of the naval force?
Nay, did not the very Thebans, in return for certain benefits, grant
to us Athenians to exercise leadership over them?[13] And at another
date the Lacedaemonans suffered us Athenians to arrange the terms of
hegemony[14] at our discretion, not as driven to such submission, but
in requital of kindly treatment. And to-day, owing to the chaos[15]
which reigns in Hellas, if I mistake not, an opportunity has fallen to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: all in the upper rooms! - the sense of the hard silver of the
autumn stars through the window-panes, and scarcely less the flare
of the street-lamps below, the white electric lustre which it would
have taken curtains to keep out. This was human actual social;
this was of the world he had lived in, and he was more at his ease
certainly for the countenance, coldly general and impersonal, that
all the while and in spite of his detachment it seemed to give him.
He had support of course mostly in the rooms at the wide front and
the prolonged side; it failed him considerably in the central
shades and the parts at the back. But if he sometimes, on his
rounds, was glad of his optical reach, so none the less often the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: been called suddenly south, and that some appoint-
ment you had with him must therefore be deferred un-
til later; he said that you would understand." The old
man eyed his companion narrowly through the eye
slit in his helm.
"'Tis passing strange," said Norman of Torn but that
was his only comment. And so they joined the column
which moved slowly down toward the valley and as
they passed the cottage of Father Claude, Norman of
Torn saw that the door was closed and that there
was no sign of life about the place. A wave of melan-
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