| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: default. It's the rottenest kind of sharp practice, but it won't
do any good. The League is too strong. They won't dare move on
us yet awhile. Why, Pres, the moment they'd try to jump any of
these ranches around here, they would have six hundred rifles
cracking at them as quick as how-do-you-do. Why, it would take a
regiment of U. S. soldiers to put any one of us off our land.
No, sir; they know the League means business this time."
As Presley and Harran trotted on along the county road they
continually passed or overtook other horsemen, or buggies, carry-
alls, buck-boards or even farm wagons, going in the same
direction. These were full of the farming people from all the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: prophetic. It was evident he had never thought out his
"democratic," he had rested in some vague tangle of idealism from
which Benham now set himself with the zeal of a specialist to rout
him. Such an argument sprang up as one meets with rarely beyond the
happy undergraduate's range. Everybody lived in the discussion,
even Amanda's mother listened visibly. Betty said she herself was
certainly democratic and Mrs. Wilder had always thought herself to
be so, and outside the circle round the fire Amanda hovered
impatiently, not quite sure of her side as yet, but eager to come
down with emphasis at the first flash of intimation.
She came down vehemently on Benham's.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lesser Hippias by Plato: portion scarcely in any degree affects our judgment of Plato, either as a
thinker or a writer, and though suggesting some interesting questions to
the scholar and critic, is of little importance to the general reader.
LESSER HIPPIAS
by
Plato (see Appendix I above)
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
INTRODUCTION.
The Lesser Hippias may be compared with the earlier dialogues of Plato, in
which the contrast of Socrates and the Sophists is most strongly exhibited.
Hippias, like Protagoras and Gorgias, though civil, is vain and boastful:
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