| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: disposition--physical and moral qualities that naturally appeal to a
savage nation.
"My father," he said, "like my brother, Cetewayo, I await your word.
Whatever you may have said to the Amabunu in haste or fear, I do not
admit that Cetewayo was ever proclaimed your heir in the hearing of the
Zulu people. I say that my right to the succession is as good as his,
and that it lies with you, and you alone, to declare which of us shall
put on the royal kaross in days that my heart prays may be distant.
Still, to save bloodshed, I am willing to divide the land with Cetewayo"
(here both Panda and Cetewayo shook their heads and the audience roared
"Nay"), "or, if that does not please him, I am willing to meet Cetewayo
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: [4] There is something amiss with the text at this point. For
emendations see Breit., Schenkl, Holden, Hartman.
You will find the principle applies elsewhere. There are points of
strategic conduct in which generals differ from each other for the
better or the worse, not because they differ in respect of wit or
judgment, but of carefulness undoubtedly. I speak of things within the
cognisance of every general, and indeed of almost every private
soldier, which some commanders are careful to perform and others not.
Who does not know, for instance, that in marching through a hostile
territory an army ought to march in the order best adapted to deliver
battle with effect should need arise?[5]--a golden rule which,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: would be kind to a mangy dog. Anyhow, he used to stand drinks to
that object, and now and then gave him half a crown - because the
widow lady kept Mr. Stafford short of pocket-money. They had rows
almost every day down in the basement. . .
It was the fellow being a sailor that put into Cloete's mind the
first notion of doing away with the Sagamore. He studies him a
bit, thinks there's enough devil in him yet to be tempted, and one
evening he says to him . . . I suppose you wouldn't mind going to
sea again, for a spell? . . . The other never raises his eyes; says
it's scarcely worth one's while for the miserable salary one gets.
. . Well, but what do you say to captain's wages for a time, and a
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