| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: Olympus have sent me to you to ask the way to the Gorgon.'
Then one, 'There are new rulers in Olympus, and all new
things are bad.' And another, 'We hate your rulers, and the
heroes, and all the children of men. We are the kindred of
the Titans, and the Giants, and the Gorgons, and the ancient
monsters of the deep.' And another, 'Who is this rash and
insolent man who pushes unbidden into our world?' And the
first, 'There never was such a world as ours, nor will be; if
we let him see it, he will spoil it all.'
Then one cried, 'Give me the eye, that I may see him;' and
another, 'Give me the tooth, that I may bite him.' But
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: not stand, for a minute, with shining, far-gazing eyes, and
dream that mistakes might be corrected?
Why was Mrs. Maclntyre poking about so absurdly
with a broom?
"I've found it," said Mrs. MacIntyre, banging the door.
"Here it is."
"Did you lose something? asked Octavia, with sweetly
polite non-interest.
"The little devil!" said Mrs. Maclntyre, driven to
violence. "Ye've no forgotten him alretty?"
Between them they slew the centipede. Thus was he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: this again is set aside by a sophistical application of Homer: for
temperance is good as well as noble, and Homer has declared that 'modesty
is not good for a needy man.' (3) Once more Charmides makes the attempt.
This time he gives a definition which he has heard, and of which Socrates
conjectures that Critias must be the author: 'Temperance is doing one's
own business.' But the artisan who makes another man's shoes may be
temperate, and yet he is not doing his own business; and temperance defined
thus would be opposed to the division of labour which exists in every
temperate or well-ordered state. How is this riddle to be explained?
Critias, who takes the place of Charmides, distinguishes in his answer
between 'making' and 'doing,' and with the help of a misapplied quotation
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