| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: [1] Or, "manner."
[2] Or, "manner."
But there are other objections brought, as I am aware, against the
Athenians, by certain people, and to this effect. It not seldom
happens, they tell us, that a man is unable to transact a piece of
business with the senate or the People, even if he sit waiting a whole
year. Now this does happen at Athens, and for no other reason save
that, owing to the immense mass of affairs they are unable to work off
all the business on hand, and dismiss the applicants. And how in the
world should they be able, considering in the first place, that they,
the Athenians, have more festivals[3] to celebrate than any other
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: to see her intelligent responsive face at the table--
to have it in one's power to make drafts at will upon
the fund of sympathy and appreciation, of facile mirth
and ready tenderness in those big eyes of hers. He liked
that phrase she had used about herself--"a good fellow."
It seemed to fit her to a "t." And Soulsby was a good
fellow too. All at once it occurred to him to wonder whether
they were married or not.
But really that was no affair of his, he reflected.
A citizen of the intellectual world should be above
soiling his thoughts with mean curiosities of that sort,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: regular solids are formed--first, the equilateral pyramid or tetrahedron;
secondly, the octahedron; thirdly, the icosahedron; and from the isosceles
triangle is formed the cube. And there is a fifth figure (which is made
out of twelve pentagons), the dodecahedron--this God used as a model for
the twelvefold division of the Zodiac.
Let us now assign the geometrical forms to their respective elements. The
cube is the most stable of them because resting on a quadrangular plane
surface, and composed of isosceles triangles. To the earth then, which is
the most stable of bodies and the most easily modelled of them, may be
assigned the form of a cube; and the remaining forms to the other
elements,--to fire the pyramid, to air the octahedron, and to water the
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