| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: necessary because the two councillors disagree, and some one is in a manner
still needed who will decide between them. Had they agreed, no arbiter
would have been required. But as Laches has voted one way and Nicias
another, I should like to hear with which of our two friends you agree.
SOCRATES: What, Lysimachus, are you going to accept the opinion of the
majority?
LYSIMACHUS: Why, yes, Socrates; what else am I to do?
SOCRATES: And would you do so too, Melesias? If you were deliberating
about the gymnastic training of your son, would you follow the advice of
the majority of us, or the opinion of the one who had been trained and
exercised under a skilful master?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: the horse- block yonder."
"So be it," said Myles, and thereupon, standing his cudgel in the
angle of the wall, he stepped boldly out into the open
court-yard. Those of his party came scatteringly from right and
left, gathering about him; and the bachelors advanced in a body,
led by the head squire.
"Now what is it thou wouldst have, Walter Blunt?" said Myles,
when both parties had met at the horse-block.
"It is to say this to thee, Myles Falworth," said the other. "One
time, not long sin, thou didst challenge me to meet thee hand to
hand in the dormitory. Then thou didst put a vile affront upon
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Britain by Washington Irving: impossible," so long as England is true to herself, that anything
can shake her; and he has much to say on the subject of the
national debt, which, somehow or other, he proves to be a
great national bulwark and blessing. He passed the greater part
of his life in the purlieus of Little Britain, until of late
years,
when, having become rich, and grown into the dignity of a
Sunday cane, he begins to take his pleasure and see the world.
He has therefore made several excursions to Hampstead,
Highgate, and other neighboring towns, where he has passed
whole afternoons in looking back upon the metropolis through
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