| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: of raw recruits or amateurs.[1]
[1] Cf. "Cyrop." I. v. 11; "Mem." III. vii. 7.
And this end may be secured primarily on this wise: those who are to
form your guerilla bands[2] must be so hardened and inured to the
saddle that they are capable of undergoing all the toils of a
campaign.[3] That a squadron (and I speak of horse and man alike)
should enter these lists in careless, disorderly fashion suggests the
idea of a troop of women stepping into the arena to cope with male
antagonists.
[2] Or, add, "for buccaneers and free-lances you must be."
[3] Lit. "every toil a soldier can encounter."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: bellum intulisse: omnes Galliae civitates ad se oppugnandum venisse ac
contra se castra habuisse; eas omnes copias a se uno proelio pulsas ac
superatas esse. Si iterum experiri velint, se iterum paratum esse
decertare; si pace uti velint, iniquum esse de stipendio recusare, quod
sua voluntate ad id tempus pependerint. Amicitiam populi Romani sibi
ornamento et praesidio, non detrimento esse oportere, atque se hac spe
petisse. Si per populum Romanum stipendium remittatur et dediticii
subtrahantur, non minus libenter sese recusaturum populi Romani amicitiam
quam adpetierit. Quod multitudinem Germanorum in Galliam traducat, id se
sui muniendi, non Galliae oppugnandae causa facere; eius rei testimonium
esse quod nisi rogatus non venerit et quod bellum non intulerit sed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: thing; it turned out a great success. You owe to it your fortune and
position. And now you have got to pay for it. Sooner or later we
have all to pay for what we do. You have to pay now. Before I leave
you to-night, you have got to promise me to suppress your report, and
to speak in the House in favour of this scheme.
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. What you ask is impossible.
MRS. CHEVELEY. You must make it possible. You are going to make it
possible. Sir Robert, you know what your English newspapers are
like. Suppose that when I leave this house I drive down to some
newspaper office, and give them this scandal and the proofs of it!
Think of their loathsome joy, of the delight they would have in
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