| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: the unskilled?
The skilled.
And who when fighting with light shields--the peltasts or the nonpeltasts?
The peltasts. And that is true of all other things, he said, if that is
your point: those who have knowledge are more confident than those who
have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than
before.
And have you not seen persons utterly ignorant, I said, of these things,
and yet confident about them?
Yes, he said, I have seen such persons far too confident.
And are not these confident persons also courageous?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: fires during the evening. As she approached, Babalatchi, who had
been squatting in the warm glow, rose and met her in the shadow
outside.
"Is she gone?" asked the anxious statesman, hastily.
"Yes," answered Mrs. Almayer. "What are the white men doing?
When did you leave them?"
"They are sleeping now, I think. May they never wake!" exclaimed
Babalatchi, fervently. "Oh! but they are devils, and made much
talk and trouble over that carcase. The chief threatened me
twice with his hand, and said he would have me tied up to a tree.
Tie me up to a tree! Me!" he repeated, striking his breast
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: it was necessary to do was to set off a few fireworks, and thump
awhile on a drum, and all the homeless wretches from a mile
around would pour in and fill the hall! And then on the morrow
the newspapers would have a chance to report the tremendous
ovation, and to add that it had been no "silk-stocking" audience,
either, proving clearly that the high tariff sentiments of the
distinguished candidate were pleasing to the wage-earners of the
nation.
So Jurgis found himself in a large hall, elaborately decorated
with flags and bunting; and after the chairman had made his
little speech, and the orator of the evening rose up, amid an
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