| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: where these three elements exist--reverence towards heaven, practice
in military affairs, and obedience to command--all else must needs be
full of happy promise.
But seeing that contempt for the foe is calculated to infuse a certain
strength in face of battle, he ordered his criers to strip naked the
barbarians captured by his foraging parties, and so to sell them. The
soldiers who saw the white skins of these folk, unused to strip for
toil, soft and sleek and lazy-looking, as of people who could only
stir abroad in carriages, concluded that a war with women would
scarcely be more formidable. Then he published a further order to the
soldiers: "I shall lead you at once by the shortest route to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: THEAETETUS: Yes, surely number, if anything, has a real existence.
STRANGER: Then we must not attempt to attribute to not-being number either
in the singular or plural?
THEAETETUS: The argument implies that we should be wrong in doing so.
STRANGER: But how can a man either express in words or even conceive in
thought things which are not or a thing which is not without number?
THEAETETUS: How indeed?
STRANGER: When we speak of things which are not, are we not attributing
plurality to not-being?
THEAETETUS: Certainly.
STRANGER: But, on the other hand, when we say 'what is not,' do we not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: Harcourt, Mr. E.V., on the birds of Madeira
Hartung, M., on boulders in the Azores
Hazel-nuts
Hearne on habits of bears
Heath, changes in vegetation
Heer, O., on plants of Madeira
Helix pomatia
Helosciadium
Hemionus, striped
Herbert, W., on struggle for existence; on sterility of hybrids
Hermaphrodites crossing
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