| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: round him. "You've brought this old fellow; did you bring the horses?"
"Look behind the wagon."
With the dog bounding before him, Joe did as he was directed, and there found
two horses tethered side by side. Little wonder that his eyes gleamed with
delight. One was jet-black; the other iron-gray and in every line the
clean-limbed animals showed the thoroughbred. The black threw up his slim head
and whinnied, with affection clearly shining in his soft, dark eyes as he
recognized his master.
"Lance, old fellow, how did I ever leave you!" murmured Joe, as he threw his
arm over the arched neck. Mose stood by looking up, and wagging his tail in
token of happiness at the reunion of the three old friends. There were tears
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: confessional."
The Code incarnate ceased speaking, sat down, and drank a glass of
champagne. The man charged with the duty of explaining the gospel, the
good priest, rose.
"God has made us all frail beings," he said firmly. "If you love the
heiress of that crime, marry her; but content yourself with the
property she derives from her mother; give that of the father to the
poor."
"But," cried one of those pitiless hair-splitters who are often to be
met with in the world, "perhaps the father could make a rich marriage
only because he was rich himself; consequently, the marriage was the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: whether at Megara or elsewhere, with the Eleatic and Megarian philosophers.
Still, Parmenides does not deny to Socrates the credit of having gone
beyond them in seeking to apply the paradoxes of Zeno to ideas; and this is
the application which he himself makes of them in the latter part of the
dialogue. He then proceeds to explain to him the sort of mental gymnastic
which he should practise. He should consider not only what would follow
from a given hypothesis, but what would follow from the denial of it, to
that which is the subject of the hypothesis, and to all other things.
There is no trace in the Memorabilia of Xenophon of any such method being
attributed to Socrates; nor is the dialectic here spoken of that 'favourite
method' of proceeding by regular divisions, which is described in the
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