| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: 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
The Memorabilia 4
The Symposium 1
Anabasis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: said to be bountiful.
ISA 32:6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will
work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the
LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink
of the thirsty to fail.
ISA 32:7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked
devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy
speaketh right.
ISA 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things
shall he stand.
ISA 32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli: the Switzers are overthrown by Spanish infantry. And although a
complete proof of this latter cannot be shown, nevertheless there was
some evidence of it at the battle of Ravenna, when the Spanish
infantry were confronted by German battalions, who follow the same
tactics as the Swiss; when the Spaniards, by agility of body and with
the aid of their shields, got in under the pikes of the Germans and
stood out of danger, able to attack, while the Germans stood helpless,
and, if the cavalry had not dashed up, all would have been over with
them. It is possible, therefore, knowing the defects of both these
infantries, to invent a new one, which will resist cavalry and not be
afraid of infantry; this need not create a new order of arms, but a
The Prince |
