| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: refusing it, they assigned to Don Quixote, who desired the lady
Micomicona to place herself by his side, as he was her protector.
Luscinda and Zoraida took their places next her, opposite to them were
Don Fernando and Cardenio, and next the captive and the other
gentlemen, and by the side of the ladies, the curate and the barber.
And so they supped in high enjoyment, which was increased when they
observed Don Quixote leave off eating, and, moved by an impulse like
that which made him deliver himself at such length when he supped with
the goatherds, begin to address them:
"Verily, gentlemen, if we reflect upon it, great and marvellous
are the things they see, who make profession of the order of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: elements. He would have seen the world pervaded by number and figure,
animated by a principle of motion, immanent in a principle of rest. He
would have tried to construct the universe on a quantitative principle,
seeming to find in endless combinations of geometrical figures or in the
infinite variety of their sizes a sufficient account of the multiplicity of
phenomena. To these a priori speculations he would add a rude conception
of matter and his own immediate experience of health and disease. His
cosmos would necessarily be imperfect and unequal, being the first attempt
to impress form and order on the primaeval chaos of human knowledge. He
would see all things as in a dream.
The ancient physical philosophers have been charged by Dr. Whewell and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: To thee I pray; sweet Clifford, pity me!
CLIFFORD.
Such pity as my rapier's point affords.
RUTLAND.
I never did thee harm; why wilt thou slay me?
CLIFFORD.
Thy father hath.
RUTLAND.
But 't was ere I was born.
Thou hast one son; for his sake pity me,
Lest in revenge thereof, sith God is just,
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