| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: slaves they bring to take part in it."
As Ja talked I had an excellent opportunity to inspect him
more closely. He was a huge fellow, standing I should say
six feet six or seven inches, well developed and of a coppery
red not unlike that of our own North American Indian,
nor were his features dissimilar to theirs. He had
the aquiline nose found among many of the higher tribes,
the prominent cheek bones, and black hair and eyes,
but his mouth and lips were better molded. All in all,
Ja was an impressive and handsome creature, and he talked
well too, even in the miserable makeshift language we
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: artificers are sedentary,[5] we, the rest of the Hellenes, are content
that our girls should sit quietly and work wools. That is all we
demand of them. But how are we to expect that women nurtured in this
fashion should produce a splendid offspring?
[4] Cf. a fragment of Critias cited by Clement, "Stromata," vi. p.
741, 6; Athen. x. 432, 433; see "A Fragment of Xenophon" (?), ap.
Stob. "Flor." 88. 14, translated by J. Hookham Frere, "Theognis
Restitutus," vol. i. 333; G. Sauppe, "Append. de Frag. Xen." p.
293; probably by Antisthenes (Bergk. ii. 497).
[5] Or, "such technical work is for the most part sedentary."
Lycurgus pursued a different path. Clothes were things, he held, the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: when this truth became vivid to their ingenious inmate he remained
unconscious of how much his mind had been prepared for it by the
extraordinary little boy who had now become such a complication in
his life. Much less could he then calculate on the information he
was still to owe the extraordinary little boy.
CHAPTER V
But it was during the ensuing time that the real problem came up -
the problem of how far it was excusable to discuss the turpitude of
parents with a child of twelve, of thirteen, of fourteen.
Absolutely inexcusable and quite impossible it of course at first
appeared; and indeed the question didn't press for some time after
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