| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: host, in evening dress of course, met him in the hall.
"Oh, I see," said the Bostonian, "that you haven't your dress suit with
you. The man will take you upstairs and one of mine will fit you well
enough. We'll wait."
In England, a cricketer from Philadelphia, after the match at Lord's, had
been invited to dine at a great house with the rest of his eleven. They
were to go there on a coach. The American discovered after arrival that
he alone of the eleven had not brought a dress suit with him. He asked
his host what he was to do.
"I advise you to go home," said the host.
The moral here is not that all hosts in England would have treated a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: ephors, and the ephors inflict heavy damages, since they will have it
plainly understood that rage must never override obedience to law.
[4] Lit. "the Paidonomos."
With regard to those who have already passed[5] the vigour of early
manhood, and on whom the highest magistracies henceforth devolve,
there is a like contrast. In Hellas generally we find that at this age
the need of further attention to physical strength is removed,
although the imposition of military service continues. But Lycurgus
made it customary for that section of his citizens to regard hunting
as the highest honour suited to their age; albeit, not to the
exclusion of any public duty.[6] And his aim was that they might be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also
come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce
urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of
cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now
is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of
segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time
to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is
the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial
injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the
moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This
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