| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: Hellene else? or rather that your state should boast more racehorse-
breeders than the rest of states, that from Syracuse the largest
number should enter to contest the prize?
[6] Cf. Plat. "Laws," 834 B.
[7] Breit. cf. Pind. "Ol." i. 82; "Pyth." i. 173; ii. 101; iii. 96.
[8] "Our solemn festivals," e.g. those held at Olympia, Delphi, the
Isthmus, Nemea.
Which would you deem the nobler conquest--to win a victory by virtue
of a chariot, or to achieve a people's happiness, that state of which
you are the head and chief? And for my part, I hold it ill becomes a
tyrant to enter the lists with private citizens. For take the case he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: to whom I wished to be a father, as well as a mother; and the double
duty appeared to me to produce a proportionate increase of affection.
But the pleasure I felt, while sustaining you, snatched from the
wreck of hope, was cruelly damped by melancholy reflections on my
widowed state--widowed by the death of my uncle. Of Mr. Venables
I thought not, even when I thought of the felicity of loving your
father, and how a mother's pleasure might be exalted, and her care
softened by a husband's tenderness.--'Ought to be!' I exclaimed;
and I endeavoured to drive away the tenderness that suffocated me;
but my spirits were weak, and the unbidden tears would flow. 'Why
was I,' I would ask thee, but thou didst not heed me,--'cut off
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: In the same way, she would make for the summit of the bushes in her
waste-land.
We catch a glimpse of her object. From on high, finding a wide
space beneath her, she sends a thread floating. It is caught by
the wind and carries her hanging to it. We have our aeroplanes;
she too possesses her flying-machine. Once the journey is
accomplished, naught remains of this ingenious business. The
climbing-instinct conies suddenly, at the hour of need, and no less
suddenly vanishes.
CHAPTER VII: THE SPIDERS' EXODUS
Seeds, when ripened in the fruit, are disseminated, that is to say,
The Life of the Spider |
