| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: [2] See "Hell." IV. i. 3; Plut. "Ages." xi. (Clough, iv. 13).
[3] Diod. xvi. 34.
[4] See "Hell." IV. i. 37.
IV
To speak next of his justice[1] in affairs of money. As to this, what
testimony can be more conclusive than the following? During the whole
of his career no charge of fraudulent dealing was ever lodged against
Agesilaus; against which set the many-voiced acknowledgmment of
countless benefits received from him. A man who found pleasure in
giving away his own for the benefit of others was not the man to rob
another of his goods at the price of infamy. Had he suffered from this
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: pleasure trips about the lake in the cool of the summer evenings,
as the Empress Dowager did her foreign visitors in later times.
The Emperor in those days was on the lookout for everything
foreign that was of a mechanical nature. Indeed every invention
interested him. In this respect he was diametrically opposite to
the genius of the whole Chinese people. Their faces had ever been
turned backward, and their highest hopes were that they might
approximate the golden ages of the past, and be equal in virtue
to their ancestors. This feeling was so strong that a hundred
years before he mounted the throne, his forefather, Chien Lung,
when he had completed his cycle of sixty years as a ruler,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: mustn't be disturbed. I was pretty nearly sick myself. And when
Mr. Sam came out at five o'clock and said he'd been in the long-
distance telephone booth for an hour and had called everybody who
had ever known Mr. Dick, and that he had dropped right off
the earth, I just about gave up. He had got some detectives, he
said, and there was some sort of a story about his having kept
right on the train to Salem, Ohio, but if he had they'd lost the
trail there, and anyhow, with the railroad service tied up by the
storm there wasn't much chance of his getting to Finleyville in
time.
Luckily Mr. Stitt was in bed with a mustard leaf over his stomach
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