| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: studied efficiency, I suppose that bishops will have the leisure
to learn something about the general state of opinion and
education in their dioceses. The Bishop of London was evidently
unaware of the almost automatic response of the sharp socialists
among his hearers. Their first enquiry would be to learn how he
came by that mysterious extra two thousand a year with which he
supplemented his stipend. How did he earn /that?/ And if he
didn't earn it---! And secondly, they would probably have
pointed out to him that his standard of housing, clothing, diet
and entertaining was probably a little higher than theirs. It is
really no proof of virtuous purity that a man's expenditure
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: said, "lend me your ears while I tell you something more, so that
those of you who choose may go to a still greater length in refusing
to believe that I am thus highly honoured by the divine powers.
Chaerephon[25] once, in the presence of many witnesses, put a question
at Delhi concerning me, and Apollo answered that there was no human
being more liberal, or more upright, or more temperate than myself."
And when once more on hearing these words the judges gave vent, as was
only natural, to a fiercer murmur of dissent, Socrates once again
spoke: "Yet, sirs, they were still greater words which the god spake
in oracle concerning Lycurgus,[26] the great lawgiver of Lacedaemon,
than those concerning me. It is said that as he entered the temple the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: congealed to a network of dry red canals.
Helen turned to her. "Did you go to church?" she asked.
She had won her sixpence and seemed making ready to go.
"Yes," said Rachel. "For the last time," she added.
In preparing to put on her gloves, Helen dropped one.
"You're not going?" Evelyn asked, taking hold of one glove
as if to keep them.
"It's high time we went," said Helen. "Don't you see how silent
every one's getting--?"
A silence had fallen upon them all, caused partly by one of the
accidents of talk, and partly because they saw some one approaching.
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