| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: heavy at times, and the sudden marvelous lucidity of other moments; as
when Art emerges from an orgy? Oh! poet, painter, and singer, lover of
splendid ceremonies and protector of the arts, was thy friendship for
art perchance a caprice, that so thou shouldst sleep beneath
magnificent canopies? Was there not a day when, in thy fantastic
pride, though chastity and humility were prescribed to thee, thou
hadst brought all things beneath thy feet, and set thy foot on the
necks of princes; when earthly dominion, and wealth, and the mind of
man bore thy yoke? Exulting in the abasement of humanity, joying to
witness the uttermost lengths to which man's folly would go, thou hast
bidden thy lovers walk on all fours, and required of them their lands
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: approach in a chariot to the regions of light and the house of the goddess
of truth.
The triple soul has had a previous existence, in which following in the
train of some god, from whom she derived her character, she beheld
partially and imperfectly the vision of absolute truth. All her after
existence, passed in many forms of men and animals, is spent in regaining
this. The stages of the conflict are many and various; and she is sorely
let and hindered by the animal desires of the inferior or concupiscent
steed. Again and again she beholds the flashing beauty of the beloved.
But before that vision can be finally enjoyed the animal desires must be
subjected.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: which may be augmented up to 1,000 impulses per second. The
complete weight of such an apparatus is 40 pounds; the electric
generator, which is no larger than the motor used for driving the
ordinary table ventilating fan, accounts for 16 pounds of this
total. Under test at sea, upon the deck of a ship, a range of
250 miles has been obtained. The British Government carried out
a series of experiments with this system, using a small plant
weighing about 30 pounds, with which communication was maintained
up to about 20 miles.
In the French system the Reuget transmitter is employed. The
apparatus, including the dynamo, which is extremely small, weighs
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