| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Crito by Plato: state the Laws will consider him as an enemy. Possibly in a land of
misrule like Thessaly he may be welcomed at first, and the unseemly
narrative of his escape will be regarded by the inhabitants as an amusing
tale. But if he offends them he will have to learn another sort of lesson.
Will he continue to give lectures in virtue? That would hardly be decent.
And how will his children be the gainers if he takes them into Thessaly,
and deprives them of Athenian citizenship? Or if he leaves them behind,
does he expect that they will be better taken care of by his friends
because he is in Thessaly? Will not true friends care for them equally
whether he is alive or dead?
Finally, they exhort him to think of justice first, and of life and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: tormentedly, pleadingly: "For God's sake, tell me what IS in it!"
But she checked this impulse - another was stronger. She pocketed
the money - the crudity of the alternative was comical - and swept
out of the room with the desperate concession: "You may tell him
any horror you like!"
CHAPTER VI
A couple of days after this, during which he had failed to profit
by so free a permission, he had been for a quarter of an hour
walking with his charge in silence when the boy became sociable
again with the remark: "I'll tell you how I know it; I know it
through Zenobie."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Chronicles 23: 4 Of these, twenty and four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges;
1_Chronicles 23: 5 and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD `with the instruments which I made to praise therewith.'
1_Chronicles 23: 6 And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1_Chronicles 23: 7 Of the Gershonites: Ladan, and Shimei.
1_Chronicles 23: 8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
1_Chronicles 23: 9 The sons of Shimei: Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' houses of Ladan.
1_Chronicles 23: 10 And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
1_Chronicles 23: 11 And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning.
1_Chronicles 23: 12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
1_Chronicles 23: 13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should be sanctified as most holy, he and his sons for ever, to offer before the LORD, to minister unto Him, and to bless in His name for ever.
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