| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: "Have no fear of him now," was the quick reply. "He will go straight
to the Arabs, the Gauls, and the Scythians. His work must be extended
to the uttermost ends of the earth."
For a moment Antipas appeared lost in thought, as one who sees a
vision. Then he said:
"His power over men is indeed great. In spite of myself, I admire
him!"
"Then set him free!"
But the tetrarch shook his head. He feared Herodias, Mannaeus, and
unknown dangers.
Phanuel tried to persuade him, promising, as a guaranty of the honesty
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: In the fifth act we see this lowest circle reached; and it is
Salvini's finest moment throughout the play. From the first
he was admirably made up, and looked Macbeth to the full as
perfectly as ever he looked Othello. From the first moment
he steps upon the stage you can see this character is a
creation to the fullest meaning of the phrase; for the man
before you is a type you know well already. He arrives with
Banquo on the heath, fair and red-bearded, sparing of
gesture, full of pride and the sense of animal wellbeing, and
satisfied after the battle like a beast who has eaten his
fill. But in the fifth act there is a change. This is still
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: Gradually, and not without difficulty, Laches is made to pass on from the
more popular to the more philosophical; it has never occurred to him that
there was any other courage than that of the soldier; and only by an effort
of the mind can he frame a general notion at all. No sooner has this
general notion been formed than it evanesces before the dialectic of
Socrates; and Nicias appears from the other side with the Socratic
doctrine, that courage is knowledge. This is explained to mean knowledge
of things terrible in the future. But Socrates denies that the knowledge
of the future is separable from that of the past and present; in other
words, true knowledge is not that of the soothsayer but of the philosopher.
And all knowledge will thus be equivalent to all virtue--a position which
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