| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: SA1 9:8 And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have
here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to
the man of God, to tell us our way.
SA1 9:9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus
he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a
Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
SA1 9:10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So
they went unto the city where the man of God was.
SA1 9:11 And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young
maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
SA1 9:12 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: There still remain, however, of the causal and co-operative arts those
which are immediately concerned with States, and which must first be
distinguished from one another.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Very good.
STRANGER: You know that these arts cannot easily be divided into two
halves; the reason will be very evident as we proceed.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Then we had better do so.
STRANGER: We must carve them like a victim into members or limbs, since we
cannot bisect them. (Compare Phaedr.) For we certainly should divide
everything into as few parts as possible.
YOUNG SOCRATES: What is to be done in this case?
Statesman |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: Don Bartholomew had great qualities. But he hardly
dreamed as did Christopherus Columbus. I loved the latter
most for that--for his dreams.
Days and days and days! We sought for gold in the
Hayna country and found a fair amount. And all Hayti
now, each Indian cacique and his country, must gather for
us. _Must_, not may. We built the fortress of San Cristoval,
and at last, to be nearer the gold than was Isabella,
the Adelantado founded the city of San Domingo, at the
mouth of the Ozema, in the Xaragua country. Spaniards
in Hispaniola now lived, so many in Isabella, so many in
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