| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: Error not tamely yields.
But falsehood closes with quick faith,
Fierce, on a thousand fields.
And surely, somewhat of that faith
Our fathers fought for clings!
Which called this freedom's hemisphere,
Despite Earth's leagued kings.
Great creeds grow thews, or else they die.
Thought clothed in deed is lord.
What are thy gods? Thy gods brought love?
They also brought a sword.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: a pleurisy, attended with a cough and a fever. She told me also
who was in the house, and how his wife was, who, by her
relation, they were in some hopes might recover her understanding;
but as to the gentleman himself, in short she told me the doctors
said there was very little hopes of him, that in the morning
they thought he had been dying, and that he was but little better
then, for they did not expect that he could live over the next
night.
This was heavy news for me, and I began now to see an end
of my prosperity, and to see also that it was very well I had
played to good housewife, and secured or saved something
Moll Flanders |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: varieties of the silkworm; in the eggs of poultry, and in the colour of the
down of their chickens; in the horns of our sheep and cattle when nearly
adult;--so in a state of nature, natural selection will be enabled to act
on and modify organic beings at any age, by the accumulation of profitable
variations at that age, and by their inheritance at a corresponding age.
If it profit a plant to have its seeds more and more widely disseminated by
the wind, I can see no greater difficulty in this being effected through
natural selection, than in the cotton-planter increasing and improving by
selection the down in the pods on his cotton-trees. Natural selection may
modify and adapt the larva of an insect to a score of contingencies, wholly
different from those which concern the mature insect. These modifications
On the Origin of Species |
