| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Yates Pride by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: suppose you made sure about his parentage, where he hailed from
and what sort of people?"
"Oh yes." Eudora was very pale.
"That's right. Maybe some time you will tell me all about it. I
am coming over Thursday to have a look at the youngster. I have
to go to the city on business to-morrow and can't get back until
Thursday. I was coming over to-night to call on you, but I have
a man coming to the inn this evening--he called me up on the
telephone just now--one of the men who have taken my place in the
business; and as long as I have met you I will just walk along
with you, and come Thursday. I suppose the baby won't be likely
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: But it must be remembered that there is not the least reason
for SEPARATING the two factors. The fact that psychologically
man has evolved from simple consciousness to
self-consciousness, and is now in process of evolution
towards another and more extended kind of consciousness,
does not in the least bar the simultaneous appearance
and influence of material evolution. It is clear indeed
that the two must largely go together, acting and reacting
on each other. Whatever the physical conditions of the animal
brain may be which connect themselves with simple (unreflected
and unreflecting) consciousness, it is evident that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: are the same or different? And if you like you may examine me as I have
examined you, or, if you would rather, you may carry on the discussion by
yourself.
ALCIBIADES: But I am not certain, Socrates, whether I shall be able to
discuss the matter with you.
SOCRATES: Then imagine, my dear fellow, that I am the demus and the
ecclesia; for in the ecclesia, too, you will have to persuade men
individually.
ALCIBIADES: Yes.
SOCRATES: And is not the same person able to persuade one individual
singly and many individuals of the things which he knows? The grammarian,
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