| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: be any of your business--either then, or now." He gave
a significant touch of emphasis to these last two words.
"Precisely," said Semple, with a glance of swift comprehension.
"You must not think I am asking any intrusive questions.
If you tell me that--that there is no ground for uneasiness--I
am verra pleased indeed to accept the assurance.
That is ample information for my purposes."
"You can take it from me," Thorpe told him. He picked up
a red book from a side table, and turned over its pages
with his thick thumb. "This is what Rule 59 says,"
he went on: "'NO APPLICATION WHICH HAS FOR ITS OBJECT TO
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: the puzzle about greater and less; the resort to the method of ideas, which
to us appear only abstract terms,--these are to be explained out of the
position of Socrates and Plato in the history of philosophy. They were
living in a twilight between the sensible and the intellectual world, and
saw no way of connecting them. They could neither explain the relation of
ideas to phenomena, nor their correlation to one another. The very idea of
relation or comparison was embarrassing to them. Yet in this intellectual
uncertainty they had a conception of a proof from results, and of a moral
truth, which remained unshaken amid the questionings of philosophy. (2)
The other is a difficulty which is touched upon in the Republic as well as
in the Phaedo, and is common to modern and ancient philosophy. Plato is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: of this world, and are allowed to speak, he will
never fail to plead in the presence of the angelic
host, and before the great and just Judge, for down-
trodden and outraged humanity.
"Therefore I cannot think thee wholly gone;
The better part of thee is with us still;
Thy soul its hampering clay aside hath thrown,
And only freer wrestles with the ill.
"Thou livest in the life of all good things;
What words thou spak'st for Freedom shall not die;
Thou sleepest not, for now thy Love hath wings
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