| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: corporate by sending out from the hive swarms of citizens, or, by
introducing persons from without, increase it; while they act according to
the rules of wisdom and justice, and use their power with a view to the
general security and improvement, the city over which they rule, and which
has these characteristics, may be described as the only true State. All
other governments are not genuine or real; but only imitations of this, and
some of them are better and some of them are worse; the better are said to
be well governed, but they are mere imitations like the others.
YOUNG SOCRATES: I agree, Stranger, in the greater part of what you say;
but as to their ruling without laws--the expression has a harsh sound.
STRANGER: You have been too quick for me, Socrates; I was just going to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Padre Ignacio by Owen Wister: and soon be in the garden. But the voices within him still talked all the
while as he sat watching the sails when they passed between the
headlands. Their words, falling for ever the same way, beat his spirit
sore, like blows upon flesh already bruised. If he could only change what
they said, he would rest.
"Has the Padre any mall for Santa Barbara?" asked Felipe. "The ship
bound southward should be here to-morrow."
"I will attend to it," said the priest, not moving. And Felipe stole
away.
At Felipe's words the voices had stopped, as a clock finishes striking.
Silence, strained like expectation, filled the Padre's soul. But in place
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: track, moreover, she tracked mainly in one relation, the relation
as to which the cage convinced her, she believed, more than
anything else could have done, that it was quite the most diffused.
She found her ladies, in short, almost always in communication with
her gentlemen, and her gentlemen with her ladies, and she read into
the immensity of their intercourse stories and meanings without
end. Incontestably she grew to think that the men cut the best
figure; and in this particular, as in many others, she arrived at a
philosophy of her own, all made up of her private notations and
cynicisms. It was a striking part of the business, for example,
that it was much more the women, on the whole, who were after the
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