| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: indeed the pantomimic, which is the opposite of the one chosen by you, is
the most popular style with children and their attendants, and with the
world in general.
I do not deny it.
But I suppose you would argue that such a style is unsuitable to our State,
in which human nature is not twofold or manifold, for one man plays one
part only?
Yes; quite unsuitable.
And this is the reason why in our State, and in our State only, we shall
find a shoemaker to be a shoemaker and not a pilot also, and a husbandman
to be a husbandman and not a dicast also, and a soldier a soldier and not a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: bath-house and take his clothes away.
"But of course I can't get my clothes," he said. "They'll take
cussed good care of that. And there's the Key too. We're up against
it, Little Sister."
Although excited by his calling me thus, I retained my faculties,
and said:
"I have a suit of Clothes you can have."
"Thanks awfully," he said. "But from the slight acquaintance we
have had, I don't beleive they would fit me."
"Gentleman's Clothes," I said fridgidly.
"You have?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: had set his heart on carrying off the palm of victory in the
pankration, he took you into his counsel;[10] and will again take
counsel to discover the fittest friend to aid him in his high
endeavour,[11] and with this friend associate.
[10] It looks as if something had been lost intimating that Autolycus
would have need of some one to instruct him in spiritual things.
For attempts to fill up the lacuna see Schenkl.
[11] Or, "these high pursuits."
Thereupon several of the company exclaimed at once. "Where will he
find a teacher to instruct him in that wisdom?" one inquired. "Why, it
is not to be taught!" exclaimed another; to which a third rejoined:
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