| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Euthyphro by Plato: Dialogues; the deep insight into the religious world; the dramatic power
and play of the two characters; the inimitable irony, are reasons for
believing that the Euthyphro is a genuine Platonic writing. The spirit in
which the popular representations of mythology are denounced recalls
Republic II. The virtue of piety has been already mentioned as one of five
in the Protagoras, but is not reckoned among the four cardinal virtues of
Republic IV. The figure of Daedalus has occurred in the Meno; that of
Proteus in the Euthydemus and Io. The kingly science has already appeared
in the Euthydemus, and will reappear in the Republic and Statesman. But
neither from these nor any other indications of similarity or difference,
and still less from arguments respecting the suitableness of this little
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Death of the Lion by Henry James: looked so juvenile and so innocent that if, as Mr. Morrow had
announced, she was resigned to the larger latitude, her superiority
to prejudice must have come to her early. I spent most of the day
hovering about Neil Paraday's room, but it was communicated to me
from below that Guy Walsingham, at Prestidge, was a success.
Toward evening I became conscious somehow that her superiority was
contagious, and by the time the company separated for the night I
was sure the larger latitude had been generally accepted. I
thought of Dora Forbes and felt that he had no time to lose.
Before dinner I received a telegram from Lady Augusta Minch. "Lord
Dorimont thinks he must have left bundle in train - enquire." How
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: rains, no high winds, and no insects, or destroying birds.
On this trip I tasted the first meat I had eaten since
leaving Earth--large, juicy steaks and chops from the well-fed
domestic animals of the farms. Also I enjoyed luscious fruits
and vegetables, but not a single article of food which was
exactly similar to anything on Earth. Every plant and flower
and vegetable and animal has been so refined by ages of careful,
scientific cultivation and breeding that the like of them on
Earth dwindled into pale, gray, characterless nothingness
by comparison.
At a second stop I met some highly cultivated people of
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