| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: and in all private schools, I presume, which take their tone from
them, cricket and football are more or less compulsory, being
considered integral parts of an Englishman's education; and that
they are likely to remain so, in spite of all reclamations:
because masters and boys alike know that games do not, in the long
run, interfere with a boy's work; that the same boy will very
often excel in both; that the games keep him in health for his
work; and the spirit with which he takes to his games when in the
lower school, is a fair test of the spirit with which he will take
to his work when he rises into the higher school; and that nothing
is worse for a boy than to fall into that loafing, tuck-shop-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: The slips once planted, yet remains to cleave
The earth about their roots persistently,
And toss the cumbrous hoes, or task the soil
With burrowing plough-share, and ply up and down
Your labouring bullocks through the vineyard's midst,
Then too smooth reeds and shafts of whittled wand,
And ashen poles and sturdy forks to shape,
Whereby supported they may learn to mount,
Laugh at the gales, and through the elm-tops win
From story up to story.
Now while yet
Georgics |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: exposure of his life; and twice that day, coming and going, he
braved the fury of the river. It was possible, in spite of the
darkness of the hurricane and the continual breaching of the seas,
to remark human movements on the ADLER; and by the help of Samoans,
always nobly forward in the work, whether for friend or enemy,
Knappe sought long to get a line conveyed from shore, and was for
long defeated. The shore guard of fifty men stood to their arms
the while upon the beach, useless themselves, and a great deterrent
of Samoan usefulness. It was perhaps impossible that this mistake
should be avoided. What more natural, to the mind of a European,
than that the Mataafas should fall upon the Germans in this hour of
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