| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: Very well. You know how we pull these alders up, and cut them
down, and yet they continually come again. Now, if we and all
human beings were to leave this pasture for a few hundred years,
would not those alders increase into a wood? Would they not kill
the grass, and spread right and left, seeding themselves more and
more as the grass died, and left the ground bare, till they met
the oaks and beeches coming down the hill? And then would begin a
great fight, for years and years, between oak and beech against
alder and willow.
But how can trees fight? Could they move or beat each other with
their boughs?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia
to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: State, and who nevertheless exercise the largest share of
authority over the people because they are placed nearest to its
level. The Americans have therefore much more to hope and to
fear from the States than from the Union; and, in conformity with
the natural tendency of the human mind, they are more likely to
attach themselves to the former than to the latter. In this
respect their habits and feelings harmonize with their interests.
When a compact nation divides its sovereignty, and adopts a
confederate form of government, the traditions, the customs, and
the manners of the people are for a long time at variance with
their legislation; and the former tend to give a degree of
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