| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: [24] Lit. "is beheld by his beloved." Cf. "Symp." iv. 4; viii. 31.
[25] Lit. "in order not to be seen of him."
[26] Lit. "good with respect to her."
[27] Or, "to those toils and that training."
XIII
Now what astonishes me in the "sophists," as they are called,[1] is,
that though they profess, the greater part of them, to lead the young
to virtue, they really lead them in the opposite direction. Never have
we set eyes on the man anywhere who owed his goodness to the sophists
of to-day.[2] Nor do their writings contain anything[3] calculated to
make men good, but they have written volumes on vain and frivolous
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau: upon her sister--though at present she can discover only an
act of inhospitality to be the ground of a quarrel with
her--the Legislature would not wholly waive the subject of
the following winter.
Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true
place for a just man is also a prison. The proper place
today, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for
her freer and less despondent spirits, is in her prisons, to
be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as
they have already put themselves out by their principles.
It is there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexican
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands
toward heaven.
CH2 6:14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in
the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy
unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
CH2 6:15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that
which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast
fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
CH2 6:16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant
David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall
not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so
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