| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: at pains not to utter a sound himself, as if he hoped by silence to
attach to himself some reputation for sagacity, Socrates, wishing to
cure him of that defect, proceeded.
Soc. Is it not surprising that people anxious to learn to play the
harp or the flute, or to ride, or to become proficient in any like
accomplishment, are not content to work unremittingly in private by
themselves at whatever it is in which they desire to excel, but they
must sit at the feet of the best-esteemed teachers, doing all things
and enduring all things for the sake of following the judgment of
those teachers in everything, as though they themselves could not
otherwise become famous; whereas, among those who aspire to become
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: 4402, 8d., 1889]; read the Report on Home Industries (sacred
word, Home!) issued by the Women's Industrial Council [Home
Industries of Women in London, 1897, 1s., 12 Buckingham Street,
W. C.]; and ask yourself whether, if the lot in life therein
described were your lot in life, you would not prefer the lot of
Cleopatra, of Theodora, of the Lady of the Camellias, of Mrs
Tanqueray, of Zaza, of Iris. If you can go deep enough into
things to be able to say no, how many ignorant half-starved girls
will believe you are speaking sincerely? To them the lot of Iris
is heavenly in comparison with their own. Yet our King, like his
predecessors, says to the dramatist, "Thus, and thus only, shall
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: primo integris viribus fortiter propugnare neque ullum flustra telum ex
loco superiore mittere, et quaecumque pars castrorum nudata defensoribus
premi videbatur, eo occurrere et auxilium ferre, sed hoc superari quod
diuturnitate pugnae hostes defessi proelio excedebant, alii integris
viribus succedebant; quarum rerum a nostris propter paucitatem fieri nihil
poterat, ac non modo defesso ex pugna excedendi, sed ne saucio quidem eius
loci ubi constiterat relinquendi ac sui recipiendi facultas dabatur.
Cum iam amplius horis sex continenter pugnaretur, ac non solum vires
sed etiam tela nostros deficerent, atque hostes acrius instarent
languidioribusque nostris vallum scindere et fossas complere coepissent,
resque esset iam ad extremum perducta casum, P. Sextius Baculus, primi
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