| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: with large bright eyes, slender figure, and little feet?"
"Yes."
"Leave him to me for a bit," said Rastignac. "I will make him
confess; he will tell me all about it."
"And meanwhile I will get my dinner. But try not to excite him;
there is still some hope left."
"All right."
"How they will enjoy themselves to-morrow," said Father Goriot
when they were alone. "They are going to a grand ball."
"What were you doing this morning, papa, to make yourself so
poorly this evening that you have to stop in bed?"
Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: incarnation of Vishnoo.
All I dare say is, that Freemasonry emerges in its present form into
history and fact, seemingly about the beginning of George I.'s
reign, among Englishmen and noblemen, notably in four lodges in the
city of London: (1) at The Goose and Gridiron alehouse in St.
Paul's Churchyard; (2) at The Crown alehouse near Drury Lane; (3) at
The Apple Tree tavern near Covent Garden; (4) at The Rummer and
Grapes tavern, in Charnel Row, Westminster. That its principles
were brotherly love and good fellowship, which included in those
days port, sherry, claret, and punch; that it was founded on the
ground of mere humanity, in every sense of the word; being (as was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: of a less amiable and less elevated order of REPTILIA in other
latitudes.
- Who was that person that was so abused some time since for saying
that in the conflict of two races our sympathies naturally go with
the higher? No matter who he was. Now look at what is going on in
India, - a white, superior "Caucasian" race, against a dark-
skinned, inferior, but still "Caucasian" race, - and where are
English and American sympathies? We can't stop to settle all the
doubtful questions; all we know is, that the brute nature is sure
to come out most strongly in the lower race, and it is the general
law that the human side of humanity should treat the brutal side as
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table |
