| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: hurting you? or have you been sent to fetch me? I want no
fetching; I had far rather fight than stay in my tent."
"Idomeneus," answered Meriones, "I come for a spear, if I can
find one in my tent; I have broken the one I had, in throwing it
at the shield of Deiphobus."
And Idomeneus captain of the Cretans answered, "You will find one
spear, or twenty if you so please, standing up against the end
wall of my tent. I have taken them from Trojans whom I have
killed, for I am not one to keep my enemy at arm's length;
therefore I have spears, bossed shields, helmets, and burnished
corslets."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: men and women. To-day they must be called a more than fairly
respectable population, and a much more than fairly intelligent.
The whole would probably not fill the ranks of even an English
half-battalion, yet there are a surprising number above the average
in sense, knowledge, and manners. The trouble (for Samoa) is that
they are all here after a livelihood. Some are sharp
practitioners, some are famous (justly or not) for foul play in
business. Tales fly. One merchant warns you against his
neighbour; the neighbour on the first occasion is found to return
the compliment: each with a good circumstantial story to the
proof. There is so much copra in the islands, and no more; a man's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: 1. RACE
This factor, race, must be placed in the first rank, for in
itself it far surpasses in importance all the others. We have
sufficiently studied it in another work; it is therefore needless
to deal with it again. We showed, in a previous volume, what an
historical race is, and how, its character once formed, it
possesses, as the result of the laws of heredity such power that
its beliefs, institutions, and arts--in a word, all the elements
of its civilisation--are merely the outward expression of its
genius. We showed that the power of the race is such that no
element can pass from one people to another without undergoing
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