| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: numero XII, polliceri milia armata L; totidem Nervios, qui maxime feri
inter ipsos habeantur longissimeque absint; XV milia Atrebates, Ambianos X
milia, Morinos XXV milia, Menapios VII milia, Caletos X milia, Veliocasses
et Viromanduos totidem, Atuatucos XVIIII milia; Condrusos, Eburones,
Caerosos, Paemanos, qui uno nomine Germani appellantur, arbitrari ad XL
milia.
Caesar Remos cohortatus liberaliterque oratione prosecutus omnem
senatum ad se convenire principumque liberos obsides ad se adduci iussit.
Quae omnia ab his diligenter ad diem facta sunt. Ipse Diviciacum Haeduum
magnopere cohortatus docet quanto opere rei publicae comnlunisque salutis
intersit manus hostium distineri, ne cum tanta multitudine uno tempore
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: THEAETETUS: Yes, I understand; and I agree that there are two sorts of
purification, and that one of them is concerned with the soul, and that
there is another which is concerned with the body.
STRANGER: Excellent; and now listen to what I am going to say, and try to
divide further the first of the two.
THEAETETUS: Whatever line of division you suggest, I will endeavour to
assist you.
STRANGER: Do we admit that virtue is distinct from vice in the soul?
THEAETETUS: Certainly.
STRANGER: And purification was to leave the good and to cast out whatever
is bad?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley: the sea-daisy, of which there is an excellent description and
plates in Mr. Gosse's "Rambles in Devon," pp. 24 to 32.
It is common at Ilfracombe, and at Torquay; and indeed everywhere
where there are cracks and small holes in limestone or slate rock.
In these holes it fixes its base, and expands its delicate brown-
grey star-like flowers on the surface: but it must be chipped out
with hammer and chisel, at the expense of much dirt and patience;
for the moment it is touched it contracts deep into the rock, and
all that is left of the daisy flower, some two or three inches
across, is a blue knot of half the size of a marble. But it will
expand again, after a day or two of captivity, and will repay all
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