| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: and these old Norsemen are men of the same blood.
If anything more important than is told by Professor Rafn and Mr.
Black {2} be now known to the antiquarians of Massachusetts, let me
entreat them to pardon my ignorance. But let me record my opinion
that, though somewhat too much may have been made in past years of
certain rock-inscriptions, and so forth, on this side of the
Atlantic, there can be no reasonable doubt that our own race landed
and tried to settle on the shore of New England six hundred years
before their kinsmen, and, in many cases, their actual descendants,
the august Pilgrim Fathers of the seventeenth century. And so, as I
said, a Scandinavian dynasty might have been seated now upon the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: further to do but to wheel each company to the right, like a trireme,
prow forwards,[22] to meet the enemy, and thus the rear company again
finds itself on the right. If, however, the enemy should attack on the
left, either they will not allow of that and push him aside,[23] or
else they wheel their companies to the left to face the antagonist,
and thus the rear company once more falls into position on the left.
[13] Or, "alongside of any comrade who may have fallen in their way."
See Plut. "Pelop." 23 (Clough, ii. 222); Thuc. v. 72.
[14] Or, "drill sergeant."
[15] See Jebb, note to "Theophr." viii. 3.
[16] Or, "marching in rear of another."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: mitre noire semee de perles et qui a les cheveux poudrees de bleu?
PREMIER SOLDAT. Oui, c'est Herodias. C'est la femme du tetrarque.
SECOND SOLDAT. Le tetrarque aime beaucoup le vin. Il possede des
vins de trois especes. Un qui vient de l'ile de Samothrace, qui est
pourpre comme le manteau de Cesar.
LE CAPPADOCIEN. Je n'ai jamais vu Cesar.
SECOND SOLDAT. Un autre qui vient de la ville de Chypre, qui est
jaune comme de l'or.
LE CAPPADOCIEN. J'aime beaucoup l'or.
SECOND SOLDAT. Et le troisieme qui est un vin sicilien. Ce vin-le
est rouge comme le sang.
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