| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: sibi statuit dum, omnibus, fortunis sociorum consumptis, in Santonos
Helvetii pervenirent.
Flumen est Arar, quod per fines Haeduorum et Sequanorum in Rhodanum
influit, incredibili lenitate, ita ut oculis in utram partem fluat
iudicari non possit. Id Helvetii ratibus ac lintribus iunctis transibant.
Ubi per exploratores Caesar certior factus est tres iam partes copiarum
Helvetios id flumen traduxisse, quartam vero partem citra flumen Ararim
reliquam esse, de tertia vigilia cum legionibus tribus e castris profectus
ad eam partem pervenit quae nondum flumen transierat. Eos impeditos et
inopinantes adgressus magnam partem eorum concidit; reliqui sese fugae
mandarunt atque in proximas silvas abdiderunt. Is pagus appellabatur
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: Plato (see Appendix I above)
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates and Menexenus.
SOCRATES: Whence come you, Menexenus? Are you from the Agora?
MENEXENUS: Yes, Socrates; I have been at the Council.
SOCRATES: And what might you be doing at the Council? And yet I need
hardly ask, for I see that you, believing yourself to have arrived at the
end of education and of philosophy, and to have had enough of them, are
mounting upwards to things higher still, and, though rather young for the
post, are intending to govern us elder men, like the rest of your family,
which has always provided some one who kindly took care of us.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: retorted that if he hadn't he didn't wish to make a beginning in his
own family. In a quarter of an hour he repudiated the theories of a
lifetime, a gratifying triumph for simple elemental goodness.
Having denied the value of the subtler pretensions to charm in woman
as you marry her, he went artlessly on to endow Cecily with as many
of them as could possibly be desirable. He actually persuaded
himself to say that it was lovely to see the reflections of life in
her tranquil spirit; and when I looked at him incredulously he grew
angry, and hinted that Cecily's sensitiveness to reflections and
other things might be a trifle beyond her mother's ken. 'She
responds instantly, intimately, to the beautiful everywhere,' he
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