| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: to be followed by the rest. And this is precisely what has taken
place. It[4] is reasonable to suppose that it was these same noblest
members of the state who combined[5] to lay the foundation of the
ephorate, after they had come to the conclusion themselves, that of
all the blessings which a state, or an army, or a household, can
enjoy, obedience is the greatest. Since, as they could not but reason,
the greater the power with which men fence about authority, the
greater the fascination it will exercise upon the mind of the citizen,
to the enforcement of obedience.
[1] See Grote, "H. G." v. 516; "Mem." III. v. 18.
[2] Or, reading after L. Dindorf, {eutaxian}, "this world-renowned
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: Then she rejected this concession to a weakness she was
resolved to defy. To the end she would leave her hand in
his hand, her eyes in his eyes: she would not, in their
final hour together, be afraid of any part of her love for
him.
"You'll tell me to-night, dear," he insisted gently; and his
insistence gave her the strength to speak.
"There's something I must ask you," she broke out,
perceiving, as she heard her words, that they were not in
the least what she had meant to say.
He sat still, waiting, and she pressed on: "Do such things
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: crumble under their weight. The heat of Branchspell, however, was by
this time almost killing, the radiance was shocking in its white
intensity, and Maskull's pain steadily grew worse.
When they got to the top, a plateau of dark rock appeared, bare of
vegetation, stretching in both directions as far as the eye could
see. It was of a nearly uniform width of five hundred yards, from
the edge of the cliffs to the lower slopes of the chain of hills
inland. The hills varied in height. The cup - shaped Poolingdred
was approximately a thousand feet above them. The upper part of it
was covered with a kind of glittering vegetation which he could not
comprehend.
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