| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: story brick structure, in the old solid, square architecture,
surrounded by a small orchard, some hickories, and a garden. Orde's
father had built it when he arrived in the pioneer country from New
England forty years before. At that time it was considered well out
in the country. Since then the town had crept to it, so that the
row of grand old maples in front shaded a stone-guttered street. A
little patch of corn opposite, and many still vacant lots above,
placed it, however, as about the present limit of growth.
Jack Orde was the youngest and most energetic of a large family that
had long since scattered to diverse cities and industries. He and
Grandpa and Grandma Orde dwelt now in the big, echoing, old-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: Plato and his imitators was not so perceptible as to ourselves. The
Memorabilia of Xenophon and the Dialogues of Plato are but a part of a
considerable Socratic literature which has passed away. And we must
consider how we should regard the question of the genuineness of a
particular writing, if this lost literature had been preserved to us.
These considerations lead us to adopt the following criteria of
genuineness: (1) That is most certainly Plato's which Aristotle attributes
to him by name, which (2) is of considerable length, of (3) great
excellence, and also (4) in harmony with the general spirit of the Platonic
writings. But the testimony of Aristotle cannot always be distinguished
from that of a later age (see above); and has various degrees of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Captain Stormfield by Mark Twain: of.
I went on, and says -
"But I only fell off just a bare point, and I went right back on my
course again the minute the race was over."
"No matter - that divergence has made all this trouble. It has
brought you to a gate that is billions of leagues from the right
one. If you had gone to your own gate they would have known all
about your world at once and there would have been no delay. But
we will try to accommodate you." He turned to an under clerk and
says -
"What system is Jupiter in?"
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