| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson: game, him that's sic a Christian man! Grand doin's for the Master
o' Ball'ntrae!" I asked him what the Master had thought of it
himself. "How would I ken?" says he. "He never said naething."
And on again in his usual manner of banning and swearing, with
every now and again a "Master of Ballantrae" sneered through his
nose. It was in one of these confidences that he showed me the
Carlisle letter, the print of the horse-shoe still stamped in the
paper. Indeed, that was our last confidence; for he then expressed
himself so ill-naturedly of Mrs. Henry that I had to reprimand him
sharply, and must thenceforth hold him at a distance.
My old lord was uniformly kind to Mr. Henry; he had even pretty
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: or not against dangers?
No, said he; the former case has been proved by you in the previous
argument to be impossible.
That, again, I replied, is quite true. And if this has been rightly
proven, then no one goes to meet what he thinks to be dangers, since the
want of self-control, which makes men rush into dangers, has been shown to
be ignorance.
He assented.
And yet the courageous man and the coward alike go to meet that about which
they are confident; so that, in this point of view, the cowardly and the
courageous go to meet the same things.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: distinction drawn is between the form chosen by the hare for her
own comfort, and her squatting-place to escape the hounds when
hunted.
[19] i.e. "the dogs have turned her head and made her as mad as a
March hare."
In reclining the hare draws up the thighs under the flanks,[20]
putting its fore-legs together, as a rule, and stretching them out,
resting its chin on the tips of its feet. It spreads its ears out over
the shoulder-blades, and so shelters the tender parts of its body; its
hair serves as a protection,[21] being thick and of a downy texture.
When awake it keeps on blinking its eyelids,[22] but when asleep the
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