| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: motor of its sustenance, will ensure victory as conclusively as
the death of the aviator himself. Rifle fire can achieve either
of these ends with little difficulty. Apart from these two
nerve-centres, bombardment is not likely to effect the desired
disablement, inasmuch as it cannot be rendered completely
effective. The wings may be riddled like a sieve, but the
equilibrium of the machine is not seriously imperilled thereby.
Even many of the stays may be shot away, but bearing in mind the
slender objective they offer, their destruction is likely to be
due more to luck than judgment. On the other hand, the motor and
fuel tank of the conventional machine offer attractive targets:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: hand? You, Antiphon, would seem to suggest that happiness consists of
luxury and extravagance; I hold a different creed. To have no wants at
all is, to my mind, an attribute of Godhead;[5] to have as few wants
as possible the nearest approach to Godhead; and as that which is
divine is mightiest, so that is next mightiest which comes closest to
the divine.
[5] Cf. Aristot. "Eth. N." x. viii. 1.
Returning to the charge at another time, this same Antiphon engaged
Socrates in conversation thus.
Ant. Socrates, for my part, I believe you to be a good and upright
man; but for your wisdom I cannot say much. I fancy you would hardly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: mutton and two valuable dresses. The woman proceeded to whine, though in
vigorous health, that she had no one to carry them home for her, and could
not think of carrying them herself. The American, the descendant of
generations of able, labouring, New England, Puritan women, tucked the leg
of mutton under one arm and the bundle of clothes under the other and
walked off down the city street towards the woman's dwelling, followed by
the astonished pauper parasite.
The most helpless case of female degeneration we ever came into contact
with was that of a daughter of a poor English officer on half-pay and who
had to exist on a few hundreds a year. This woman could neither cook her
own food nor make her own clothes, nor was she engaged in any social,
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