| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: They attached no blame indeed to Dercylidas. Anaxibius, however,
through the friendship of the ephors, contrived to get himself
appointed as governor, on a mission to Abydos. With the requisite
funds and ships, he promised to exert such hostile pressure upon
Athens that at least her prospects in the Hellespont would cease to be
so sunny. His friends the ephors granted him in return for these
promises three ships of war and funds to support a thousand
mercenaries, and so they despatched him on his mission. Reaching
Abydos, he set about improving his naval and military position. First
he collected a foreign brigade, by help of which he drew off some of
the Aeolid cities from Pharnabazus. Next he set on foot a series 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: expression or symbol of the transition from the ideal to the actual state.
In some passages we are uncertain whether we are reading a description of
astronomical facts or contemplating processes of the human mind, or of that
divine mind (Phil.) which in Plato is hardly separable from it. The
characteristics of man are transferred to the world-animal, as for example
when intelligence and knowledge are said to be perfected by the circle of
the Same, and true opinion by the circle of the Other; and conversely the
motions of the world-animal reappear in man; its amorphous state continues
in the child, and in both disorder and chaos are gradually succeeded by
stability and order. It is not however to passages like these that Plato
is referring when he speaks of the uncertainty of his subject, but rather
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: produced the bag, minus the bit of chain, had been my intention.
But the police had the bag, and, beyond knowing something of
Sullivan's history, I was practically no nearer his discovery than
before. Hotchkiss hoped he had his man in the house off Washington
Circle, but on the very night he had seen him Jennie claimed that
Sullivan had tried to enter the Laurels. Then - suppose we found
Sullivan and proved the satchel and its contents his? Since the
police had the bit of chain it might mean involving Alison in the
story. I sat down and buried my face in my hands. There was no
escape. I figured it out despondingly.
Against me was the evidence of the survivors of the Ontario that
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