| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: rendered useless.
[20] Or, "As regards those who are actually serving in the cavalry."
For a plausible emend. of this passage (S. 13) see Courier ("Notes
sur le texte," p. 54); L. Dind. ad loc.
[21] Lit. "the senate might incite to . . ."
[22] Reading {ean}, or if {kan} with the MSS., trans. "even in case of
an advance against the enemy."
With a view to strengthening the horses' feet: if any one has an
easier or more simple treatment to suggest, by all means let it be
adopted; but for myself, as the result of experience, I maintain that
the proper course is to lay down a loose layer of cobbles from the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke: in yellow, and the third rode in black and yellow. So they
cried Martimor that he should give them passage, for they
followed a quest.
"Passage takes, who passage makes!" cried Martimor.
"Right well I know your quest, and it is a foul one."
Then the knight in black rode at him lightly,
but Martimor encountered him with the spear and smote him
backward from his horse, that his head struck the coping of
the bridge and brake his neck. Then came the knight in
yellow, walloping heavily, and him the spear pierced through
the midst of the body and burst in three pieces: so he fell on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: been independently created, no man can explain.
Many other facts are, as it seems to me, explicable on this theory. How
strange it is that a bird, under the form of woodpecker, should have been
created to prey on insects on the ground; that upland geese, which never or
rarely swim, should have been created with webbed feet; that a thrush
should have been created to dive and feed on sub-aquatic insects; and that
a petrel should have been created with habits and structure fitting it for
the life of an auk or grebe! and so on in endless other cases. But on the
view of each species constantly trying to increase in number, with natural
selection always ready to adapt the slowly varying descendants of each to
any unoccupied or ill-occupied place in nature, these facts cease to be
On the Origin of Species |
