| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: thing which any man might say: that when a man has acquired a knowledge of
a whole art, the enquiry into good and bad is one and the same. Let us
consider this matter; is not the art of painting a whole?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: And there are and have been many painters good and bad?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: And did you ever know any one who was skilful in pointing out
the excellences and defects of Polygnotus the son of Aglaophon, but
incapable of criticizing other painters; and when the work of any other
painter was produced, went to sleep and was at a loss, and had no ideas;
but when he had to give his opinion about Polygnotus, or whoever the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: yoursell."
"Wussing your health, sirs," said the shepherd; and having taken
off his glass, and observed the whisky was the right thing, he
continued, "It's no for the like o' us to be judging, to be sure;
but it was a bonny knowe that broomy knowe, and an unco braw
shelter for the lambs in a severe morning like this."
"Ay," said his patron, "but ye ken we maun hae turnips for the
lang sheep, billie, and muckle hard wark to get them, baith wi'
the pleugh and the howe; and that wad sort ill wi' sitting on the
broomy knowe, and cracking about Black Dwarfs, and siccan
clavers, as was the gate lang syne, when the short sheep were in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: In the silence you hear the little blood vessels whisper in
your ears. You see a faint glow of colour on the
darkness. . . . "
Dr. Martineau sat without a word.
"I can believe that over all things Righteousness rules. I
can believe that. But Righteousness is not friendliness nor
mercy nor comfort nor any such dear and intimate things. This
cuddling up to Righteousness! It is a dream, a delusion and a
phase. I've tried all that long ago. I've given it up long
ago. I've grown out of it. Men do--after forty. Our souls
were made in the squatting-place of the submen of ancient
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