| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Praeterea se neque sine exercitu in eas partes Galliae venire audere quas
Caesar possideret, neque exercitum sine magno commeatu atque molimento in
unum locum contrahere posse. Sibi autem mirum videri quid in sua Gallia,
quam bello vicisset, aut Caesari aut omnino populo Romano negotii esset.
His responsis ad Caesarem relatis, iterum ad eum Caesar legatos cum
his mandatis mittit: quoniam tanto suo populique Romani beneficio
adtectus, cum in consulatu suo rex atque amicus a senatu appellatus esset,
hanc sibi populoque Romano gratiam referret ut in conloquium venire
invitatus gravaretur neque de communi re dicendum sibi et cognoscendum
putaret, haec esse quae ab eo postularet: primum ne quam multitudinem
hominum amplius trans Rhenum in Galliam traduceret; deinde obsides quos
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: "And he said, 'Oh my wife, what are the Boer, and the Russian, and the Turk
to me; am I responsible for their action? It is my own nation, mine, which
I love as a man loves his own soul, whose acts touch me. I would that
wherever our flag was planted the feeble or oppressed peoples of earth
might gather under it, saying, 'Under this banner is freedom and justice
which knows no race or colour.' I wish that on our banner were blazoned in
large letters "Justice and Mercy", and that in every new land which our
feet touch, every son among us might see ever blazoned above his head that
banner, and below it the great order:--"By this sign, Conquer!"--and that
the pirate flag which some men now wave in its place, may be torn down and
furled for ever! Shall I condone the action of some, simply because they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: She nodded. "Love them."
"You must come driving with me--I've got a fine pair of greys. Will you?"
"Pretty I'd look perched behind greys in my one and only hat," thought she.
Aloud: "I'd love to." Her easy acceptance pleased him.
"How about to-morrow?" he suggested. "Suppose you have lunch with me to-
morrow and I take you driving."
After all--this was just a game. "Yes, I'm not busy to-morrow," she said.
A little pause--then the strange man patted his leg. "Why don't you come
and sit down?" he said.
She pretended not to see and swung on to the table. "Oh, I'm all right
here."
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