| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: that he should have maintained in the future so excellent an
attitude of firmness and moderation, and that when the crash came,
Knappe and de Coetlogon, not Knappe and Blacklock, were found to be
the protagonists of the drama. The conference was futile. The
English and American consuls admitted but one cure of the evils of
the time: that the farce of the Tamasese monarchy should cease.
It was one which the German refused to consider. And the agents
separated without reaching any result, save that diplomatic
relations had been restored between the States and Germany, and
that all three were convinced of their fundamental differences.
Knappe and de Coetlogon were still friends; they had disputed and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
Anabasis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: reservoirs outside in the chapel -- when there was
water to draw, I mean -- and none but monks could
enter the well-chamber. I entered it, for I had tempo-
rary authority to do so, by courtesy of my professional
brother and subordinate. But he hadn't entered it
himself. He did everything by incantations; he never
worked his intellect. If he had stepped in there and
used his eyes, instead of his disordered mind, he could
have cured the well by natural means, and then turned
it into a miracle in the customary way; but no, he was
an old numskull, a magician who believed in his own
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
