| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: afternoon's amusement. And the shipping, where are they? The
floating castles of the Hamoaze have dwindled to a few crawling
lime-hoys; and the Catwater is packed, not as now, with merchant
craft, but with the ships who will to-morrow begin the greatest
sea-fight which the world has ever seen.
There they lie, a paltry squadron enough in modern eyes; the
largest of them not equal in size to a six-and-thirty-gun frigate,
carrying less weight of metal than one of our new gun-boats, and
able to employ even that at not more than a quarter of our modern
range. Would our modern spectators, just come down by rail for a
few hours, to see the cavalry embark, and return tomorrow in time
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: of him, he would not make a bad husband. And her child
Lucy had always--esteemed him highly.
CHAPTER XVIII
The next day was Sunday. George jumped out of bed with
the dawn. He whistled and sang scraps of songs as he
took his bath. The sun shone. What a full, happy world
it was, anyhow! And he had given up the game last night?
Why, life was just beginning for him! He was nothing but
a boy--not yet thirty. He would make a big success soon,
and then try to win--to win---- He stopped, breathless,
looking into the distance, and his eyes slowly grew wet
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: work; for that which we know by the art of the pilot we do not know by the
art of medicine?
ION: Certainly not.
SOCRATES: Nor do we know by the art of the carpenter that which we know by
the art of medicine?
ION: Certainly not.
SOCRATES: And this is true of all the arts;--that which we know with one
art we do not know with the other? But let me ask a prior question: You
admit that there are differences of arts?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: You would argue, as I should, that when one art is of one kind
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