| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: interested motives for the purest manifestations of human
piety." In this way the character of this angel became
injured, and he became more and more an object of dread and
dislike to men, until the later Jews ascribed to him all the
attributes of Ahriman, and in this singularly altered shape he
passed into Christian theology. Between the Satan of the Book
of Job and the mediaeval Devil the metamorphosis is as great
as that which degraded the stern Erinys, who brings evil deeds
to light, into the demon-like Fury who torments wrong-doers in
Tartarus; and, making allowance for difference of
circumstances, the process of degradation has been very nearly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: coachman. Several livery-stable keepers were in attendance, but
nothing was settled, till I suggested that Aunt Eliza should send
for her own carriage. James was sent back the next day, and
returned on Thursday with coach, horses, and William her coachman.
That matter being finished, and the trunks being unpacked, she
decided to take her first bath in the sea, expecting me to support
her through the trying ordeal of the surf. As we were returning
from the beach we met a carriage containing a number of persons
with a family resemblance.
When Aunt Eliza saw them she angrily exclaimed, "Am I to see
those Uxbridges every day?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: their creations; would not the art of the Statesman and the aforesaid art
of weaving disappear? For all these arts are on the watch against excess
and defect, not as unrealities, but as real evils, which occasion a
difficulty in action; and the excellence or beauty of every work of art is
due to this observance of measure.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.
STRANGER: But if the science of the Statesman disappears, the search for
the royal science will be impossible.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.
STRANGER: Well, then, as in the case of the Sophist we extorted the
inference that not-being had an existence, because here was the point at
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