| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: English using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table. The
diacritical marks have been lost.
The Economist
by Xenophon
Translation by H. G. Dakyns
THE ECONOMIST[1]
A Treatise on the Science of the Household
in the form of a Dialogue
INTERLOCUTORS
Socrates and Critobulus
At Chapter VII. a prior discussion held between Socrates and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: at noon. The vineyard-dresser wreathed his hair with ivy that he
might keep off the rays of the sun as he stooped over the young
shoots, and for the artist and the athlete, the two types that
Greece gave us, they plaited with garlands the leaves of the bitter
laurel and of the wild parsley, which else had been of no service
to men.
We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any
single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, and fire
purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all. As a consequence
our art is of the moon and plays with shadows, while Greek art is
of the sun and deals directly with things. I feel sure that in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: Missiles were found--odds and ends--and crammed into the swivel up
to the muzzle: and, in another minute, its "cargo of notions" was
crashing into the poop-windows, silencing the fire from thence
effectually enough for the time.
"Now, then, a rush forward, and right in along the deck!" shouted
Yeo; and the whole party charged through the cabin-doors, which
their shot had burst open, and hewed their way from room to room.
In the meanwhile, the Spaniards above had fought fiercely: but, in
spite of superior numbers, they had gradually given back before the
"demoniacal possession of those blasphemous heretics, who fought,
not like men, but like furies from the pit." And by the time that
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