| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: which plot might have succeeded had not one of their own number
betrayed them.
Their plan had been to fall upon the King and his adherents, and
to massacre them during a great tournament, to be held at Oxford.
But Henry did not appear at the lists; whereupon, knowing that he
had been lodging at Windsor with only a few attendants, the
conspirators marched thither against him. In the mean time the
King had been warned of the plot, so that, instead of finding him
in the royal castle, they discovered through their scouts that he
had hurried to London, whence he was even then marching against
them at the head of a considerable army. So nothing was left them
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: no evil, are about to visit my cave at once; for to prove that I sincerely
regret my share in your capture I am going to permit you to escape."
This speech greatly surprised the prisoner, until he reflected that it
was just what might be expected of the Daemon of Repentance. The
fellow at once busied himself untying the knots that bound Santa Claus
and unlocking the chains that fastened him to the wall. Then he
led the way through a long tunnel until they both emerged in the
Cave of Repentance.
"I hope you will forgive me," said the Daemon pleadingly. "I am not
really a bad person, you know; and I believe I accomplish a great deal
of good in the world."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: have influence with him? Will he not rather contrive to do as much wrong
as possible, and not be punished?
CALLICLES: True.
SOCRATES: And by the imitation of his master and by the power which he
thus acquires will not his soul become bad and corrupted, and will not this
be the greatest evil to him?
CALLICLES: You always contrive somehow or other, Socrates, to invert
everything: do you not know that he who imitates the tyrant will, if he
has a mind, kill him who does not imitate him and take away his goods?
SOCRATES: Excellent Callicles, I am not deaf, and I have heard that a
great many times from you and from Polus and from nearly every man in the
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