Excerpt II illustrates the theme that people are cautious around those who hurt them because of how people will be on guard and be on the lookout (probably for warning signs of the potential of being hurt again). Excerpt III illustrates the theme that people are cautious around those who hurt them because “in whose limbs there is latent flight” means that they have the ability/capacity to run away if the situation again rises.
Answer: George Washington was born into a Virginia planter family and taught the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an eighteenth-century Virginia gentleman.