| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: Sometimes we might ask a little more; never, I think, less.
And as a matter of fact, a great part of Mr. Wheatley's
volume might be transferred, by a good editor of Pepys, to
the margin of the text, for it is precisely what the reader
wants.
In the light of these two books, at least, we have now to
read our author. Between them they contain all we can expect
to learn for, it may be, many years. Now, if ever we should
be able to form some notion of that unparalleled figure in
the annals of mankind - unparalleled for three good reasons:
first, because he was a man known to his contemporaries in a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: with the very words of Jacob Boehme. In the forty-eighth proposition
of the Threefold Life of Man he says that 'if God hath brought all
things to pass with a LET THERE BE, the FIAT is the secret matrix
which comprehends and apprehends the nature which is formed by the
spirit born of Mercury and of God.' "
"What do you say, sir?"
The German delivered his quotation afresh.
"We do not know it," said the clerks.
"Fiat? . . ." said a clerk. "Fiat lux!"
"You can verify the citation for yourselves," said the German. "You
will find the passage in the Treatise of the Threefold Life of Man,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: turned away; and they have called the truth a lie now that it has come
to them, but there shall come to them the message of that at which
they mocked.
Do not they see how many a generation we have destroyed before them,
whom we had settled in the earth as we have not settled for you, and
sent the rain of heaven upon them in copious showers, and made the
waters flow beneath them? Then we destroyed them in their sins, and
raised up other generations after them.
Had we sent down to thee a book on paper, and they had touched it
with their hands, still those who misbelieve would have said, 'This is
naught but obvious magic.' They say, 'Why has not an angel been sent
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