| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: his watch there with his eyes on it, reflecting while he held it
that this deliberate wait, a wait with an effort, which he
recognised, would serve perfectly for the attestation he desired to
make. It would prove his courage - unless indeed the latter might
most be proved by his budging at last from his place. What he
mainly felt now was that, since he hadn't originally scuttled, he
had his dignities - which had never in his life seemed so many -
all to preserve and to carry aloft. This was before him in truth
as a physical image, an image almost worthy of an age of greater
romance. That remark indeed glimmered for him only to glow the
next instant with a finer light; since what age of romance, after
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: SOCRATES: And when you call in an adviser, you should see whether he too
is skilful in the accomplishment of the end which you have in view?
NICIAS: Most true.
SOCRATES: And at present we have in view some knowledge, of which the end
is the soul of youth?
NICIAS: Yes.
SOCRATES: And we are enquiring, Which of us is skilful or successful in
the treatment of the soul, and which of us has had good teachers?
LACHES: Well but, Socrates; did you never observe that some persons, who
have had no teachers, are more skilful than those who have, in some things?
SOCRATES: Yes, Laches, I have observed that; but you would not be very
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: the race at large or in any branch of it) always following,
step by step, a certain order depending on the degrees
of psychologic evolution concerned; and that it is this
general fact which accounts for the strange similarities of
belief and ritual which have been observed all over the world
and in places far remote from each other, and which have been
briefly noted in the preceding chapters.
And the main stages of this psychologic evolution--those
at any rate with which we are here concerned--are Three:
the stage of Simple Consciousness, the stage of Self-
consciousness, and a third Stage which for want of a
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