| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: And a bit more sentimental
O'er the finer things of life.
But I am not here to make them,
Or to work in human clay;
It is just my work to take them
As they are from day to day.
Here's a world that suffers sorrow,
Here are bitterness and pain,
And the joy we plan to-morrow
May be ruined by the rain.
Here are hate and greed and badness,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: E. A." bk. ii. ch. xxi.
[6] Lit. "pentecontarch;" see Dem. "In Pol." 1212.
[7] Aristot. "Pol." vi. 7; Jowett, "The Politics of Aristotle," vol.
i. p. 109.
[8] {klerotoi}, {airetoi}.
[9] Reading with Kirchhoff, {epeo tou}, or if {epeita}, "in the next
place."
[10] Hipparch.
[11] Cf. "Hipparch." i. 9; "Econ." ii. 8.
[12] E.g. the {dikasteria}.
In the next place, in regard to what some people are puzzled to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Haeduorum iter in Santonum fines facere, qui non longe a Tolosatium
finibus absunt, quae civitas est in provincia. Id si fieret, intellegebat
magno cum periculo provinciae futurum ut homines bellicosos, populi Romani
inimicos, locis patentibus maximeque frumentariis finitimos haberet. Ob
eas causas ei munitioni quam fecerat T. Labienum legatum praeficit; ipse
in Italiam magnis itineribus contendit duasque ibi legiones conscribit et
tres, quae circum Aquileiam hiemabant, ex hibernis educit et, qua proximum
iter in ulteriorem Galliam per Alpes erat, cum his quinque legionibus ire
contendit. Ibi Ceutrones et Graioceli et Caturiges locis superioribus
occupatis itinere exercitum prohibere conantur. Compluribus his proeliis
pulsis ab Ocelo, quod est citerioris provinciae extremum, in
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