| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: entered, but the hole where it emerged would be the size of a
saucer.
He decided to give up the pursuit, and lay down in the grass,
protected right and left by the row of palms, with on either hand
the long avenue extending. This he could watch. Tudor would have
to come to him or else there would be no termination of the affair.
He wiped the sweat from his face and tied the handkerchief around
his neck to keep off the stinging gnats that lurked in the grass.
Never had he felt so great a disgust for the thing called
"adventure." Joan had been bad enough, with her Baden-Powell and
long-barrelled Colt's; but here was this newcomer also looking for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: is other, and unlike in so far as it is the same.
Yes, that argument may be used.
And there is another argument.
What?
In so far as it is affected in the same way it is not affected otherwise,
and not being affected otherwise is not unlike, and not being unlike, is
like; but in so far as it is affected by other it is otherwise, and being
otherwise affected is unlike.
True.
Then because the one is the same with the others and other than the others,
on either of these two grounds, or on both of them, it will be both like
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: constituting the insulation of the Red Sea cable of 1859, are given
as the only results in the way of absolute measurements of the
electric resistance of an insulating material which had then been
made. These remarks are prefaced in the 'Encyclopaedia' article by
the following statement: 'No telegraphic testing ought in future
to be accepted in any department of telegraphic business which has
not this definite character; although it is only within the last
year that convenient instruments for working, in absolute measure,
have been introduced at all, and the whole system of absolute
measure is still almost unknown to practical electricians.'
A particular result of great importance in respect to testing is
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