| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: jest happened to stumble down here?"
"You'll have to take my word, that's all," replied Duane,
sharply.
"I ain't takin' your word! Savvy thet? An' I was Luke's pard!"
With that Bosomer wheeled and, pushing his companions aside, he
stamped into the saloon, where his voice broke out in a roar.
Duane dismounted and threw his bridle.
"Stranger, Bosomer is shore hot-headed," said the man Euchre.
He did not appear unfriendly, nor were the others hostile.
At this juncture several more outlaws crowded out of the door,
and the one in the lead was a tall man of stalwart physique.
The Lone Star Ranger |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: for reality, which in point of fact has always held the world to
be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel,
life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no
capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no
matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing
to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the
service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.
Inferior to ourselves in this or that way, if yet we cling to
life, and he is able "to fling it away like a flower" as caring
nothing for it, we account him in the deepest way our born
superior. Each of us in his own person feels that a high-hearted
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: will deploy and increase the front, whatever the formation, without
confusion, whenever there is occasion for the movement.[15]
[11] i.e. "given by general word of command, or in writing." As to the
"word-of-mouth command," see above, S. 3; "Hell." VII. v. 9; and
for the "herald," see "Anab." III. iv. 36.
[12] Reading {pros to dia p.}, or if {pros to} . . . transl. "with a
view to."
[13] Lit. pempadarchs, i.e. No. 6 in the file. See "Cyrop." II. i. 22
foll., iii. 21.
[14] Lit. "so that each officer may pass the word to as few as
possible."
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