| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Every landmark was familiar to me, and I was sure now
that I knew the exact location of the cave.
It was at about this time that I sighted a number of
the half-naked warriors of the human race of Pellucidar.
They were marching across our front. At sight of us they
halted; that there would be a fight I could not doubt.
These Sagoths would never permit an opportunity for
the capture of slaves for their Mahar masters to escape
them.
I saw that the men were armed with bows and arrows,
long lances and swords, so I guessed that they must have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: him nearer, their courage and strength seemed to desert them.
As he came about level with the pit, he paused, and turned his face
full upon the lads.
"Mary be my shield! He sees us!" said Matcham, faintly.
"Hush!" whispered Dick. "He doth but hearken. He is blind, fool!"
The leper looked or listened, whichever he was really doing, for
some seconds. Then he began to move on again, but presently paused
once more, and again turned and seemed to gaze upon the lads. Even
Dick became dead-white and closed his eyes, as if by the mere sight
he might become infected. But soon the bell sounded, and this
time, without any farther hesitation, the leper crossed the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: and capable of adaptation to moods and times; the other is more permanent,
more concentrated, and is uttered not to this or that person or audience,
but to all the world. In the Politicus the paradox is carried further; the
mind or will of the king is preferred to the written law; he is supposed to
be the Law personified, the ideal made Life.
Yet in both these statements there is also contained a truth; they may be
compared with one another, and also with the other famous paradox, that
'knowledge cannot be taught.' Socrates means to say, that what is truly
written is written in the soul, just as what is truly taught grows up in
the soul from within and is not forced upon it from without. When planted
in a congenial soil the little seed becomes a tree, and 'the birds of the
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