| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: {othen kateidon ton bebakkhiomenen
brotoisi kleinon Nusan . . . k.t.l.},
but it is a far cry from Xenophon's Syria to India. Possibly it is
to be sought for in the region of Mt. Amanus.
In the mountains, owing to the difficulty of the ground,[2] some of
these animals are captured by means of poison--the drug aconite--which
the hunters throw down for them,[3] taking care to mix it with the
favourite food of the wild best, near pools and drinking-places or
wherever else they are likely to pay visits. Others of them, as they
descend into the plains at night, may be cut off by parties mounted
upon horseback and well armed, and so captured, but not without
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: some profit from one of them, conceived, as he says, "by heavenly
inspiration." This was a water-engine for drying marsh-lands and
mines, requiring neither pump, suckers, barrels, bellows, nor
external nor additional help, save that afforded from its own
operations. This engine Sorbiere describes as one of the most
curious things he had a mind to see, and says one man by the help
of this machine raised four large buckets full of water in an
instant forty feet high, through a pipe eight inches long. An
act of parliament was passed enabling the marquis to reap the
benefit and profit from this invention, subject to a tenth part
which was reserved for the king and his heirs.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: their feelings are constant and just, results of due contemplation,
and of equal thought. You can talk a mob into anything; its
feelings may be--usually are--on the whole, generous and right; but
it has no foundation for them, no hold of them; you may tease or
tickle it into any, at your pleasure; it thinks by infection, for
the most part, catching an opinion like a cold, and there is nothing
so little that it will not roar itself wild about, when the fit is
on;--nothing so great but it will forget in an hour, when the fit is
past. But a gentleman's, or a gentle nation's, passions are just,
measured, and continuous. A great nation, for instance, does not
spend its entire national wits for a couple of months in weighing
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