| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: [1] {eis to deon}. Holden cf. "Anab." I. iii. 8. Aristoph. "Clouds,"
859, {osper Periklees eis to deon apolesa}: "Like Pericles, for a
necessary purpose, I have lost them."
First, the palace: do you imagine that a building, beautified in every
way at an enormous cost, will afford you greater pride and ornament
than a whole city ringed with walls and battlements, whose furniture
consists of temples and pillared porticoes,[2] harbours, market-
places?
[2] Reading {parastasi}, properly "pillasters" (Poll. i. 76. 10. 25) =
"antae," hence "templum in antis" (see Vitruv. iii. 2. 2); or more
widely the entrance of a temple or other building. (Possibly the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: There was also added the opinion which infinitely increased
Private Masses, namely that Christ, by His passion, had made
satisfaction for original sin, and instituted the Mass wherein
an offering should be made for daily sins, venial and mortal.
From this has arisen the common opinion that the Mass takes
away the sins of the living and the dead by the outward act.
Then they began to dispute whether one Mass said for many were
worth as much as special Masses for individuals, and this
brought forth that infinite multitude of Masses. [With this
work men wished to obtain from God all that they needed, and
in the mean time faith in Christ and the true worship were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: "He couldn't cut off their heads, that's certain; but, I suppose, a
poke in the ribs will do as much for them as for their neighbors."
"Well," said Jack, "if I fight, let me fight honest flesh and
blood, that's all, and none of these outlandish monsters. How do
you know but that they are invulnerable by art-magic?"
"How do you know that they are? And as for the Amazons," said
Cary, "woman's woman, all the world over. I'll bet that you may
wheedle them round with a compliment or two, just as if they were
so many burghers' wives. Pity I have not a court-suit and a
Spanish hat. I would have taken an orange in one hand and a
handkerchief in the other, gone all alone to them as ambassador,
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