| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: intellectual training that he subsequently embodied in five very
stimulating and intimate articles for the SCHOOL WORLD, but never
put into more than partial operation.
"I have read my father's articles upon this subject," wrote Benham,
"and I am still perplexed to measure just what I owe to him. Did he
ever attempt this moral training he contemplated so freely? I don't
think he did. I know now, I knew then, that he had something in his
mind. . . . There were one or two special walks we had together, he
invited me to accompany him with a certain portentousness, and we
would go out pregnantly making superficial remarks about the school
cricket and return, discussing botany, with nothing said.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus: repels. But a clear and certain impression of the Good the Soul
will never reject, any more than men do Caesar's coin. On this
hangs every impulse alike of Man and God.
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Asked what Common Sense was, Epictetus replied:--
As that may be called a Common Ear which distinguishes only
sounds, while that which distinguishes musical notes is not
common but produced by training; so there are certain things
which men not entirely perverted see by the natural principles
common to all. Such a constitution of the Mind is called Common
Sense.
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: he was a monomaniac once more.
However, Paolo was already more easily diverted by the impression of
outside things; his mind was more capable of addressing itself to
several points at a time.
Andrea, who took an artistic interest in his semi-medical treatment,
thought at last that the time had come for a great experiment. He
would give a dinner at his own house, to which he would invite
Giardini for the sake of keeping the tragedy and the parody side by
side, and afterwards take the party to the first performance of
/Robert le Diable/. He had seen it in rehearsal, and he judged it well
fitted to open his patient's eyes.
Gambara |
