| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: reluctant to acknowledge.
The doctrine of Hegel will to many seem the expression of an indolent
conservatism, and will at any rate be made an excuse for it. The mind of
the patriot rebels when he is told that the worst tyranny and oppression
has a natural fitness: he cannot be persuaded, for example, that the
conquest of Prussia by Napoleon I. was either natural or necessary, or that
any similar calamity befalling a nation should be a matter of indifference
to the poet or philosopher. We may need such a philosophy or religion to
console us under evils which are irremediable, but we see that it is fatal
to the higher life of man. It seems to say to us, 'The world is a vast
system or machine which can be conceived under the forms of logic, but in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: to discharge your office in the manner most acceptable to Heaven, and
with fullest increase to yourself, and friends, and to the state at
large of affection, glory, and wide usefulness. The goodwill of
Heaven[3] so obtained, you shall proceed to mount your troopers,
taking care that the full complement which the law demands is reached,
and that the normal force of cavalry is not diminished. There will
need to be a reserve of remounts, or else a deficiency may occur at
any moment,[4] looking to the fact that some will certainly succumb to
old age, and others, from one reason or another, prove unserviceable.
[1] For the title, etc., see Schneid. "Praemon. de Xeno." {Ipp}.
Boeckh, "P. E. A." 251.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: SIR BENJAMIN. My Unkle's account is more circumstantial I must
confess--but I believe mine is the true one for all that.
LADY SNEERWELL. I am more interested in this Affair than they
imagine--and must have better information.--
[Exit.]
SIR BENJAMIN. Ah! Lady Sneerwell's alarm is very easily accounted
for.--
CRABTREE. Yes yes, they certainly DO say--but that's neither here
nor there.
MRS. CANDOUR. But pray where is Sir Peter at present----
CRABTREE. Oh! they--brought him home and He is now in the House,
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