The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: sense of Plato, the new-born Baconian philosophy had but little chance
in the world. Bacon had been right in his dislike of Platonism years
before, though he was unjust to Plato himself. It was Proclus whom he
was really reviling; Proclus as Plato's commentator and representative.
The lion had for once got into the ass's skin, and was treated
accordingly. The true Platonic method, that dialectic which the
Alexandrians gradually abandoned, remains yet to be tried, both in
England and in Germany; and I am much mistaken, if, when fairly used, it
be not found the ally, not the enemy, of the Baconian philosophy; in
fact, the inductive method applied to words, as the expressions of
Metaphysic Laws, instead of to natural phenomena, as the expressions of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: Master of Balliol College
Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a
pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans,
and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land
and property in Scillus, where he lived for many
years before having to move once more, to settle
in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia
to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: nose almost - I had spent the whole day trying to learn the safe's
combination; I trailed him to the Club de Vingt, and heard the
head waiter tell him you, Mr. Kent, were sitting in the small
smoking porch, so I climbed up the trumpet vine; oh, it was strong
and no climb for one who has done the feats I have in the circus.
I reached the porch just in time to see Mrs. Brewster drop her fan,
and when the men bent to pick it up she 'lifted' the envelope and
concealed it under her scarf."
"Don't," Mrs. Brewster laid a detaining hand on McIntyre as he
stepped forward. "The man is telling the truth. I thought it was
the envelope you gave me earlier in the evening - it was unaddressed
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