| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: the people, who dispense offices and power to those who appear to be most
deserving of them. Neither is a man rejected from weakness or poverty or
obscurity of origin, nor honoured by reason of the opposite, as in other
states, but there is one principle--he who appears to be wise and good is a
governor and ruler. The basis of this our government is equality of birth;
for other states are made up of all sorts and unequal conditions of men,
and therefore their governments are unequal; there are tyrannies and there
are oligarchies, in which the one party are slaves and the others masters.
But we and our citizens are brethren, the children all of one mother, and
we do not think it right to be one another's masters or servants; but the
natural equality of birth compels us to seek for legal equality, and to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: of any worth I ha' seen this blessed day."
At these words the Cobbler's eyes opened big and wide, and his
mouth grew round with wonder, like a knothole in a board fence.
"slack-a-day," quoth he, "look ye, now! I ha' never seen those same
golden birds. And dost thou in sooth find them in these hedges,
good fellow? Prythee, tell me, are there many of them?
I would fain find them mine own self."
"Ay, truly," quoth Robin, "they are as thick here as fresh herring
in Cannock Chase."
"Look ye, now!" said the Cobbler, all drowned in wonder.
"And dost thou in sooth catch them by dropping salt on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: "I'm inclined to believe you," she said slowly.
There was silence between them for some time, then Mrs.
Vandemeyer looked up.
"What does he want to know, this friend of yours?"
Tuppence went through a momentary struggle, but it was Julius's
money, and his interests must come first.
"He wants to know where Jane Finn is," she said boldly.
Mrs. Vandemeyer showed no surprise.
"I'm not sure where she is at the present moment," she replied.
"But you could find out?"
"Oh, yes," returned Mrs. Vandemeyer carelessly. "There would be
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