| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: "But," said I, feeling very friendly towards him, "the bother about my soul
is that it refuses to grapple anybody at all--and I am sure that the dead
weight of a friend whose adoption it had tried would kill it immediately.
Never yet has it shown the slightest sign of a hoop!"
He bumped against my knees and excused himself and the cart.
"My dear little lady, you must not take the quotation literally.
Naturally, one is not physically conscious of the hoops; but hoops there
are in the soul of him or her who loves his fellow-men...Take this
afternoon, for instance. How did we start out? As strangers you might
almost say, and yet--all of us--how have we come home?"
"In a cart," said the only remaining joy, who sat upon his mother's lap and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: [1] Lit. "with the gods," and for the sentiment see below, x. 10;
"Cyrop." III. i. 15; "Hipparch," ix. 3.
[2] For {bioteuein} cf. Pind. "Nem." iv. 11, and see Holden ad loc.
Socrates replied: What say you then? Shall we first survey the ground
already traversed, and retrace the steps on which we were agreed, so
that, if possible we may conduct the remaining portion of the argument
to its issue with like unanimity?[3]
[3] Lit. "try whether we can go through the remaining steps with
like . . ."
Crit. Why, yes! If it is agreeable for two partners in a business to
run through their accounts without dispute, so now as partners in an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: As any of the little ones
Who round him run in play.
I stopped to speak with him awhile;
"Oh, tell me, Grandpa, pray,
I said, "why do you work so hard
Throughout the livelong day?
Your hair is gray, your back is bent,
With weight of years oppressed;
This is the evening of your life--
Why don't you sit and rest?"
"Ah, no," the old man answered me,
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