| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: try to make it real, and you fail; and something you have killed out in
your heart for long years wakes up and cries, 'Let each man play his own
game, and care nothing for the hand of his fellow! Each man for himself.
So the game must be played!' and you doubt all you have lived for, and the
ground seems washing out under your feet--." She paused. "Such a time has
come to me now. If you would promise me that if ever another woman comes
to seek your help, you will give it to her, and try to love her for my
sake, I think it will help me. I think I should be able to keep my faith."
"Oh, I will do anything you ask me to. You are so good and great."
"Oh, good and great!--if you knew! Now go, dear."
"I have not kept you from your work, have I?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: only a part; so that from the moment Chad accepted his farewell the
question of a more ideal affirmation gave way to something else.
He proceeded with the rest of his business. "You'll be a brute, you
know--you'll be guilty of the last infamy--if you ever forsake her."
That, uttered there at the solemn hour, uttered in the place that
was full of her influence, was the rest of his business; and when
once he had heard himself say it he felt that his message had never
before been spoken. It placed his present call immediately on
solid ground, and the effect of it was to enable him quite to play
with what we have called the key. Chad showed no shade of
embarrassment, but had none the less been troubled for him after
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: the chorus, and the People for whom the chorus is trained; it is the
rich man who is trierarch or gymnasiarch, and the People that profits
by their labours.[30] In fact, what the People looks upon as its right
is to pocket the money.[31] To sing and run and dance and man the
vessels is well enough, but only in order that the People may be the
gainer, while the rich are made poorer. And so in the courts of
justice,[32] justice is not more an object of concern to the jurymen
than what touches personal advantage.
[27] For {mousike} and {gumnastike}, see Becker's "Charicles," Exc.
"Education."
[28] See "Revenues," iv. 52; Arist. "Frogs," 1069, {e xekenosen tas te
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