| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: "Day at last appeared, and I rose from my bed ill in health and
humiliated in mind. I was ashamed of myself as a man and a
soldier, and still more so at feeling my own extreme desire to
escape from the haunted apartment, which, however, conquered all
other considerations; so that, huddling on my clothes with the
most careless haste, I made my escape from your lordship's
mansion, to seek in the open air some relief to my nervous
system, shaken as it was by this horrible rencounter with a
visitant, for such I must believe her, from the other world.
Your lordship has now heard the cause of my discomposure, and of
my sudden desire to leave your hospitable castle. In other
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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: enamoured of such a spot as I describe,[38] and then nothing would
content him but he must own it, in order to have something to do, and
at the same time, to derive pleasure along with profit from the
purchase. For you must know, Socrates, of all Athenians I have ever
heard of, my father, as it seems to me, had the greatest love for
agricultural pursuits.
[32] i.e. out of cultivation, whether as corn land or for fruit trees,
viz. olive, fig, vine, etc.
[33] Or, "be it a dead thing or a live pet." Cf. Plat. "Theaet." 174
B; "Laws," 789 B, 790 D, 819 B; "C. I." 1709.
[34] Cf. "Horsem." iii. 1; and see Cowley's Essay above referred to.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: the death of you, especially of the younger ones among you, cutting and
burning and starving and suffocating you, until you know not what to do; he
gives you the bitterest potions, and compels you to hunger and thirst. How
unlike the variety of meats and sweets on which I feasted you!' What do
you suppose that the physician would be able to reply when he found himself
in such a predicament? If he told the truth he could only say, 'All these
evil things, my boys, I did for your health,' and then would there not just
be a clamour among a jury like that? How they would cry out!
CALLICLES: I dare say.
SOCRATES: Would he not be utterly at a loss for a reply?
CALLICLES: He certainly would.
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