| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: demanded. Sparta had done no wrong to justify this invasion on the
part of the Arcadians and their allies. All she had done was to assist
the men of Tegea when[40] the Mantineans had marched against that
township contrary to their solemn oaths." Again, for the second time,
at these expressions a confused din ran through the assembly, half the
audience maintaining that the Mantineans were justified in supporting
Proxenus and his friends, who were put to death by the party with
Stasippus; the other half that they were wrong in bringing an armed
force against the men of Tegea.
[38] Or, "the Thebans be decimated"; for the phrase see above, "Hell."
VI. iii. 20.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: unreasonable? Do you not feel that marriage,--when it is marriage
at all,--is only the seal which marks the vowed transition of
temporary into untiring service, and of fitful into eternal love?
But how, you will ask, is the idea of this guiding function of the
woman reconcilable with a true wifely subjection? Simply in that it
is a GUIDING, not a determining, function. Let me try to show you
briefly how these powers seem to be rightly distinguishable.
We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the
"superiority" of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared
in similar things. Each has what the other has not: each completes
the other, and is completed by the other: they are in nothing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: Torches ablaze, and noise of hurrying feet.
Pray God they have not seized her.
[Noise grows louder.]
Beatrice!
There is yet time to escape. Come down, come out!
[The voice of the DUCHESS outside.]
This way went he, the man who slew my lord.
[Down the staircase comes hurrying a confused body of Soldiers;
GUIDO is not seen at first, till the DUCHESS surrounded by Servants
carrying torches appears at the top of the staircase, and points to
GUIDO, who is seized at once, one of the Soldiers dragging the
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