| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: Southern leaders, pointed out the injustice of their threat to
break up the Union if their claims were not granted, stated
forcibly the stand taken by the Republican party, and brought his
speech to a close with the short and telling appeal:
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let
us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
The attention with which it was followed, the applause that
greeted its telling points, and the enthusiasm of the Republican
journals next morning showed that Lincoln's Cooper Institute
speech had taken New York by storm. It was printed in full in
four of the leading daily papers of the city, and immediately
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: "is an imperative duty. If, however, matters turn out well on the
other side, rely upon it, friends and allies, I will not forget you,
but I shall be back anon to carry out your wishes." When they heard
the announcement many wept, and they passed a resolution, one and all,
to assist Agesilaus in assisting Lacedaemon; if matters turned out
well there, they undertook to take him as their leader and come back
again to Asia; and so they fell to making preparations to follow him.
Agesilaus, on his side, determined to leave behind him in Asia Euxenus
as governor, and with him a garrison numbering no less than four
thousand troops, which would enable him to protect the states in Asia.
But for himself, as on the one hand he could see that the majority of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: than before?
By a smaller portion.
Then the difference between the age of the one and the age of the others
will not be afterwards so great as at first, but if an equal time be added
to both of them they will differ less and less in age?
Yes.
And that which differs in age from some other less than formerly, from
being older will become younger in relation to that other than which it was
older?
Yes, younger.
And if the one becomes younger the others aforesaid will become older than
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