| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: d. The Psychology which is found in common language is in some degree
verified by experience, but not in such a manner as to give it the
character of an exact science. We cannot say that words always correspond
to facts. Common language represents the mind from different and even
opposite points of view, which cannot be all of them equally true (compare
Cratylus). Yet from diversity of statements and opinions may be obtained a
nearer approach to the truth than is to be gained from any one of them. It
also tends to correct itself, because it is gradually brought nearer to the
common sense of mankind. There are some leading categories or
classifications of thought, which, though unverified, must always remain
the elements from which the science or study of the mind proceeds. For
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: remains that, while one man takes pains to have manure collected,
another is entirely neglectful. And yet God sends us rain from heaven,
and every hollow place becomes a standing pool, while earth supplies
materials of every kind; the sower, too, about to sow must cleanse the
soil, and what he takes as refuse from it needs only to be thrown into
water and time itself will do the rest, shaping all to gladden
earth.[9] For matter in every shape, nay earth itself,[10] in stagnant
water turns to fine manure.
[9] Lit. "Time itself will make that wherein Earth rejoices."
[10] i.e. "each fallen leaf, each sprig or spray of undergrowth, the
very weeds, each clod." Lit. "what kind of material, what kind of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: which sat the prisoners, he opened his right hand and unfolded a
small paper. He read the brief penciled message it contained not
once but a dozen times. Folding the paper into minute dimensions
he tucked it carefully inside his vest pocket and glanced sideways
at Clymer. The banker hardly noticed his uneasy movements as he
sat regarding Helen McIntyre standing in the witness box. Although
paler than usual, the girl's manner was quiet, but Clymer, a close
student of human nature, decided she was keeping her composure by
will power alone, and his interest grew.
The Judge, from the Bench, was also regarding the handsome witness
and the burglar with close attention. Colonel Charles McIntyre, a
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