| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Art of War by Sun Tzu: CH`I as CH`I; they do not note that the two are mutually
interchangeable and run into each other like the two sides of a
circle [see infra, ss. 11]. A comment on the T`ang Emperor T`ai
Tsung goes to the root of the matter: 'A CH`I maneuver may be
CHENG, if we make the enemy look upon it as CHENG; then our real
attack will be CH`I, and vice versa. The whole secret lies in
confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.'"
To put it perhaps a little more clearly: any attack or other
operation is CHENG, on which the enemy has had his attention
fixed; whereas that is CH`I," which takes him by surprise or
comes from an unexpected quarter. If the enemy perceives a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: wagons, to join their feeble shouts, and prayers which are not
feeble, to that great cry of mingled faith and fear which ascends
to the throne of God from the spectators of Britain's Salamis.
Let them pray on. The danger is not over yet, though Lord Howard
has had news from Newhaven that the Guises will not stir against
England, and Seymour and Winter have left their post of observation
on the Flemish shores, to make up the number of the fleet to an
hundred and forty sail--larger, slightly, than that of the Spanish
fleet, but of not more than half the tonnage, or one third the
number of men. The Spaniards are dispirited and battered, but
unbroken still; and as they slide to their anchorage in Calais
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: General Council, because the matters to be adjusted between Your
Imperial Majesty and the Roman Pontiff were nearing agreement and
Christian reconciliation; therefore Your Imperial Majesty himself
signified that he would endeavor to secure the said Chief
Pontiff's consent for convening, together with your Imperial
Majesty such General Council, to be published as soon as possible
by letters that were to be sent out.
If the outcome, therefore, should be such that the differences
between us and the other parties in the matter of religion should
not be amicably and in charity settled, then here, before Your
Imperial Majesty we make the offer in all obedience, in addition
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