| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: views I am merely following a precedent set me by the state herself.
So it seems to me, since the state permits any foreigner who desires
it to undertake mining operations on a footing of equality[9] with her
own citizens.
[9] Or, "at an equal rent with that which she imposes on her own
citizens." See Boeckh, "P. E. A." IV. x. (p. 540, Eng. tr.)
But, to make my meaning clearer on the question of maintenance, I will
at this point explain in detail how the silver mines may be furnished
and extended so as to render them much more useful to the state. Only
I would premise that I claim no sort of admiration for anything which
I am about to say, as though I had hit upon some recondite discovery.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: 'Adore Adam,' they adored him save only Iblis, who refused and was too
proud and became one of the misbelievers. And we said, 'O Adam
dwell, thou and thy wife, in Paradise, and eat therefrom amply as
you wish; but do not draw near this tree or ye will be of the
transgressors. And Satan made them backslide therefrom and drove
them out from what they were in, and we said, 'Go down, one of you the
enemy of the other, and in the earth there is an abode and a provision
for a time.' And Adam caught certain words from 'his Lord, and He
turned towards him, for He is the compassionate one easily turned.
We said, 'Go down therefrom altogether and haply there may come from
me a guidance, and whoso follows my guidance, no fear is theirs, nor
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Hidden Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac: speak of, you may be dead, and your picture forever unfinished."
"Oh, it is finished!" said Frenhofer. "Whoever sees it will find a
woman lying on a velvet bed, beneath curtains; perfumes are exhaling
from a golden tripod by her side: he will be tempted to take the
tassels of the cord that holds back the curtain; he will think he sees
the bosom of Catherine Lescaut,--a model called the Beautiful Nut-
girl; he will see it rise and fall with the movement of her breathing.
Yet--I wish I could be sure--"
"Go to Asia, then," said Porbus hastily, fancying he saw some
hesitation in the old man's eye.
Porbus made a few steps towards the door of the room. At this moment
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