| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
The Hellenica 7
The Cyropaedia 8
Anabasis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: one entirely so besides myself; but at least the nature of
your madness entertains me, and I will reward you with some
description of my character and life.'
Thereupon the old lady, still fondling the cat upon her lap,
proceeded to narrate the following particulars.
NARRATIVE OF THE SPIRITED OLD LADY
I WAS the eldest daughter of the Reverend Bernard Fanshawe,
who held a valuable living in the diocese of Bath and Wells.
Our family, a very large one, was noted for a sprightly and
incisive wit, and came of a good old stock where beauty was
an heirloom. In Christian grace of character we were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: crushing despotism? Alas! by mutual understanding, about ten years
after marriage, he and his wife were separated while living under one
roof. The father had taken upon himself the education of his sons,
leaving that of the daughters to his wife. He saw less danger for
women than for men in the application of his wife's oppressive system.
The two Maries, destined as women to endure tyranny, either of love or
marriage, would be, he thought, less injured than boys, whose minds
ought to have freer play, and whose manly qualities would deteriorate
under the powerful compression of religious ideas pushed to their
utmost consequences. Of four victims the count saved two.
The countess regarded her sons as too ill-trained to admit of the
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