| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the teeth of the straining beast were scarce an inch from
Tarzan's throat when, with a shuddering tremor, the great body
stiffened for an instant and then sank limply to the ground.
Kerchak was dead.
Withdrawing the knife that had so often rendered him
master of far mightier muscles than his own, Tarzan of the
Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his vanquished enemy,
and once again, loud through the forest rang the fierce, wild
cry of the conqueror.
And thus came the young Lord Greystoke into the kingship of the Apes.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: the knowledge of the terrible is a knowledge of the future. But there can
be no knowledge of future good or evil separated from a knowledge of the
good and evil of the past or present; that is to say, of all good and evil.
Courage, therefore, is the knowledge of good and evil generally. But he
who has the knowledge of good and evil generally, must not only have
courage, but also temperance, justice, and every other virtue. Thus, a
single virtue would be the same as all virtues (compare Protagoras). And
after all the two generals, and Socrates, the hero of Delium, are still in
ignorance of the nature of courage. They must go to school again, boys,
old men and all.
Some points of resemblance, and some points of difference, appear in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: the mountains; not so much for taking them on to cultivated land.[25]
And for this reason: the fells offer facilities for hunting and for
following the quarry without interruption, while cultivated land,
owing to the number of cross roads and beaten paths, presents
opportunities for neither. Moreover, quite apart from finding a hare,
it is an excellent thing to take your dogs on to rough ground. It is
there they will become sound of foot, and in general the benefit to
their physique in working over such ground will amply repay you.[26]
[25] Or, "pretty often, and less frequently over."
[26] Lit. "they must be benefited in their bodies generally by working
over such ground."
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