| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: by big game alone.
He wasn't afraid (though putting himself the question as he
believed gentlemen on Bengal tiger-shoots or in close quarters with
the great bear of the Rockies had been known to confess to having
put it); and this indeed - since here at least he might be frank! -
because of the impression, so intimate and so strange, that he
himself produced as yet a dread, produced certainly a strain,
beyond the liveliest he was likely to feel. They fell for him into
categories, they fairly became familiar, the signs, for his own
perception, of the alarm his presence and his vigilance created;
though leaving him always to remark, portentously, on his probably
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: philosophy. For, as Euripides says,
'Every man shines in that and pursues that, and devotes the greatest
portion of the day to that in which he most excels,' (Antiope, fragm. 20
(Dindorf).)
but anything in which he is inferior, he avoids and depreciates, and
praises the opposite from partiality to himself, and because he thinks that
he will thus praise himself. The true principle is to unite them.
Philosophy, as a part of education, is an excellent thing, and there is no
disgrace to a man while he is young in pursuing such a study; but when he
is more advanced in years, the thing becomes ridiculous, and I feel towards
philosophers as I do towards those who lisp and imitate children. For I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one
that toucheth them shall be unclean.
LEV 11:27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of
beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth
their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
LEV 11:28 And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.
LEV 11:29 These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping
things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the
tortoise after his kind,
LEV 11:30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the
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