| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: But dies, betray'd to fortune by your strife.
SOMERSET.
Come, go; I will dispatch the horsemen straight:
Within six hours they will be at his aid.
LUCY.
Too late comes rescue; he is ta'en or slain;
For fly he could not, if he would have fled;
And fly would Talbot never, though he might.
SOMERSET.
If he be dead, brave Talbot, then adieu!
LUCY.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: [34] "The one theoretic, the other practical."
But if you would rouse the emulation of your phylarchs, if you would
stir in each a personal ambition to appear at the head of his own
squadron in all ways splendidly appointed, the best incentive will be
your personal example. You must see to it that your own bodyguard[35]
are decked with choice accoutrement and arms; you must enforce on them
the need to practise shooting pertinaciously; you must expound to them
the theory of the javelin, yourself an adept in the art through
constant training.[36]
[35] Techn. {prodromoi}, possibly = the Hippotoxotai, or corps of 200
mounted archers--Scythians; cf. "Mem." III. iii. 11. Or, probably,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: epoch,--an epoch which has for its final object the complete
subjection of the powers of nature to purposes of individual
comfort and happiness. We have now to trace some of the effects
of this lately-begun industrial development upon social life and
individual culture. And as we studied the leisureliness of
antiquity where its effects were most conspicuous, in the city of
Athens, we shall now do well to study the opposite
characteristics of modern society where they are most
conspicuously exemplified, in our own country. The attributes of
American life which it will be necessary to signalize will be
seen to be only the attributes of modern life in their most
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