| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: thousand devils. A dozen times as the head bent far-
ther and farther toward him the boy loosed his hold
upon the mane and reached quickly down to grasp the
near fore pastern. A dozen times the horse shook off
the new hold, but at length the boy was successful, and
the knee was bent and the hoof drawn up to the elbow.
Now the black fought at a disadvantage, for he was
on but three feet and his neck was drawn about in an
awkward and unnatural position. His efforts became
weaker and weaker. The boy talked incessantly to him
in a quiet voice, and there was a shadow of a smile
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: what he believed to be true economic ideals.
There is nothing of all this in "The King of the Golden
River." Unlike his other works, it was written merely to entertain.
Scarcely that, since it was not written for publication at all, but
to meet a challenge set him by a young girl.
The circumstance is interesting. After taking his degree at
Oxford, Ruskin was threatened with consumption and hurried away
from the chill and damp of England to the south of Europe. After
two years of fruitful travel and study he came back improved in
health but not strong, and often depressed in spirit. It was at
this time that the Guys, Scotch friends of his father and mother,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Crito by Plato: travel as other men do. Nor had you any curiosity to know other states or
their laws: your affections did not go beyond us and our state; we were
your especial favourites, and you acquiesced in our government of you; and
here in this city you begat your children, which is a proof of your
satisfaction. Moreover, you might in the course of the trial, if you had
liked, have fixed the penalty at banishment; the state which refuses to let
you go now would have let you go then. But you pretended that you
preferred death to exile (compare Apol.), and that you were not unwilling
to die. And now you have forgotten these fine sentiments, and pay no
respect to us the laws, of whom you are the destroyer; and are doing what
only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon
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