| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: joyous excitement of the conclusive advance.
The organisation of Soissons for defence is perfect. I may not
describe it, but think of whatever would stop and destroy an
attacking party or foil the hostile shell. It is there. Men
have had nothing else to do and nothing else to think of for two
years. I crossed the bridge the English made in the pursuit
after the Marne, and went into the first line trenches and peeped
towards the invisible enemy. To show me exactly where to look a
seventy-five obliged with a shell. In the crypt of the Abbey of
St. Medard near by it--it must provoke the Germans bitterly to
think that all the rest of the building vanished ages ago--the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: and very tall, her venerable face reminding one of some old marquise
who had survived the horrors of the Great Revolution. In her right
hand a huge Book of Hours shone in the sunlight, and very slowly she
crossed the square, followed some fifteen paces off by a footman in
livery. The church was emptying, and all the inhabitants of Chamont
bowed before her with extreme respect. An old man even kissed her
hand, and a woman wanted to fall on her knees. Truly this was a
potent queen, full of years and honors. She mounted her flight of
steps and vanished from view.
"That's what one attains to when one has methodical habits!" said
Mignon with an air of conviction, looking at his sons and improving
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: "Met." viii. 300; Grote, "H. G." i. 195.
[22] i.e. Oeneus. "Il." ix. 535.
[23] Or, "may not be laid to his charge."
Theseus[24] single-handed destroyed the enemies of collective Hellas;
and in that he greatly enlarged the boundaries of his fatherland, is
still to-day the wonder of mankind.[25]
[24] See "Mem." II. i. 14; III. v. 10; cf. Isocr. "Phil." 111; Plut.
"Thes." x. foll.; Diod. iv. 59; Ov. "Met." vii. 433.
[25] Or, "is held in admiration still to-day." See Thuc. ii. 15;
Strab. ix. 397.
Hippolytus[26] was honoured by our lady Artemis and with her
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