| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: across the Queen's Drive, a splendid carriageway encircling the hill,
which we owe to a few lines in one of Sir Walter Scott's romances.
Arthur's Seat is in truth only a hill, seven hundred and fifty
feet high, which stands alone amid surrounding heights.
In less than half an hour, by an easy winding path, James Starr
and his party reached the crest of the
crouching lion, which, seen from the west, Arthur's Seat so
much resembles. There, all four seated themselves; and James Starr,
ever ready with quotations from the great Scottish novelist,
simply said, "Listen to what is written by Sir Walter Scott
in the eighth chapter of the Heart of Mid-Lothian. 'If I were
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: will be open books, which he who wills may read. The human race may not be
always ground down by bodily toil, but may have greater leisure for the
improvement of the mind. The increasing sense of the greatness and
infinity of nature will tend to awaken in men larger and more liberal
thoughts. The love of mankind may be the source of a greater development
of literature than nationality has ever been. There may be a greater
freedom from prejudice and party; we may better understand the whereabouts
of truth, and therefore there may be more success and fewer failures in the
search for it. Lastly, in the coming ages we shall carry with us the
recollection of the past, in which are necessarily contained many seeds of
revival and renaissance in the future. So far is the world from becoming
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: se quae imperarentur facere dixerunt. Armorum magna multitudine de muro
in fossam, quae erat ante oppidum, iacta, sic ut prope summam muri
aggerisque altitudinem acervi armorum adaequarent, et tamen circiter parte
tertia, ut postea perspectum est, celata atque in oppido retenta, portis
patefactis eo die pace sunt usi.
Sub vesperum Caesar portas claudi militesque ex oppido exire iussit,
ne quam noctu oppidani a militibus iniuriam acciperent. Illi ante inito,
ut intellectum est, consilio, quod deditione facta nostros praesidia
deducturos aut denique indiligentius servaturos crediderant, partim cum
iis quae retinuerant et celaverant armis, partim scutis ex cortice factis
aut viminibus intextis, quae subito, ut temporis exiguitas postulabat,
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