| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: tection. She did not wait to hand it to the Englishman who
ran forward to receive it, but brushed past him and leaped
into close quarters beside the growling, tumbling mass of yel-
low fur and smooth brown hide. Several times she attempted
to press the point home into the cat's body, but on both occa-
sions the fear of endangering the ape-man caused her to de-
sist, but at last the two lay motionless for a moment as the
carnivore sought a moment's rest from the strenuous exertions
of battle, and then it was that Bertha Kircher pressed the point
of the spear to the tawny side and drove it deep into the savage
heart.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: of the rights of the States, and especially
the right of each State to order and control
its own domestic institutions according to
its own judgment exclusively, is essential
to that balance of power on which the perfection
and endurance of our political fabric depend,
and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed
force of the soil of any State or Territory,
no matter under what pretext,
as among the gravest of crimes."
I now reiterate these sentiments; and, in doing so, I only press upon
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: interpreted by his own, and by his place in the history of philosophy. We
are not concerned to determine what is the residuum of truth which remains
for ourselves. His truth may not be our truth, and nevertheless may have
an extraordinary value and interest for us.
I cannot agree with Mr. Grote in admitting as genuine all the writings
commonly attributed to Plato in antiquity, any more than with Schaarschmidt
and some other German critics who reject nearly half of them. The German
critics, to whom I refer, proceed chiefly on grounds of internal evidence;
they appear to me to lay too much stress on the variety of doctrine and
style, which must be equally acknowledged as a fact, even in the Dialogues
regarded by Schaarschmidt as genuine, e.g. in the Phaedrus, or Symposium,
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