| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Apology by Plato: State approves, would have appeared to him both uncertain and unimportant
in comparison of the duty of self-examination, and of those principles of
truth and right which he deemed to be the foundation of religion. (Compare
Phaedr.; Euthyph.; Republic.)
The second question, whether Plato meant to represent Socrates as braving
or irritating his judges, must also be answered in the negative. His
irony, his superiority, his audacity, 'regarding not the person of man,'
necessarily flow out of the loftiness of his situation. He is not acting a
part upon a great occasion, but he is what he has been all his life long,
'a king of men.' He would rather not appear insolent, if he could avoid it
(ouch os authadizomenos touto lego). Neither is he desirous of hastening
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: small white house, standing high like a beacon, where Mrs. Todd was
born and where her mother lived, on a green slope above the
water, with dark spruce woods still higher. There were crops in
the fields, which we presently distinguished from one another.
Mrs. Todd examined them while we were still far at sea. "Mother's
late potatoes looks backward; ain't had rain enough so far," she
pronounced her opinion. "They look weedier than what they call
Front Street down to Cowper Centre. I expect brother William is so
occupied with his herrin' weirs an' servin' out bait to the
schooners that he don't think once a day of the land."
"What's the flag for, up above the spruces there behind the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: exits furthest from us, rose upon their wings, and soared
northward. A hundred men on lidi were despatched in
pursuit, each lidi carrying two riflemen in addition to its
driver. Guessing that the inland sea, which lay not far
north of Phutra, was their destination, I took a couple
of regiments and followed.
A low ridge intervenes between the Phutra plain
where the city lies, and the inland sea where the Ma-
hars were wont to disport themselves in the cool waters.
Not until we had topped this ridge did we get a view of
the sea.
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