| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: you, is the science of itself. Admitting this view, I ask of you, what
good work, worthy of the name wise, does temperance or wisdom, which is the
science of itself, effect? Answer me.
That is not the true way of pursuing the enquiry, Socrates, he said; for
wisdom is not like the other sciences, any more than they are like one
another: but you proceed as if they were alike. For tell me, he said,
what result is there of computation or geometry, in the same sense as a
house is the result of building, or a garment of weaving, or any other work
of any other art? Can you show me any such result of them? You cannot.
That is true, I said; but still each of these sciences has a subject which
is different from the science. I can show you that the art of computation
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: quite accurate in his statement. He had never seen the slightest
indication on the girl's part of more than ordinary friendship.
"And then in Monsieur Thuran's loss, if they are lost, you
would suffer a severe bereavement," he ventured.
She looked up at him quickly. "Monsieur Thuran had become
a very dear friend," she said. "I liked him very much,
though I have known him but a short time."
"Then you were not engaged to marry him?" he blurted out.
"Heavens, nol!" she cried. "I did not care for him at all
in that way."
There was something that Lord Tennington wanted to say
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: bridegroom out of the chapel in the middle of the marriage ceremony,
and turn all our merry faces into green wounds and bloody coxcombs,
and then come and tell me he has done us great right?"
"True," said the friar: "he has done neither right nor wrong."
"But he has," said the baron, "he has done both, and I will maintain it
with my glove."
"It shall not need," said Sir Ralph; "I will concede any thing in honour."
"And I," said the baron, "will concede nothing in honour:
I will concede nothing in honour to any man."
"Neither will I, Lord Fitzwater," said Sir Ralph, "in that sense:
but hear me. I was commissioned by the king to apprehend
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