| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: the heavy dragging sound of Frau Lehmann's footsteps, and again the old
thoughts worried Sabina. If she herself should one day look like
that--feel like that! Yet it would be very sweet to have a little baby to
dress and jump up and down.
"Fraulein--what's your name--what are you smiling at?" called the Young
Man.
She blushed and looked up, hands quiet in her lap, looked across the empty
tables and shook her head.
"Come here, and I'll show you a picture," he commanded.
She went and stood beside him. He opened the book, and Sabina saw a
coloured sketch of a naked girl sitting on the edge of a great, crumpled
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: of all those, who, approve the very writings and principles, against which,
your testimony is directed: And he hath chosen this singular situation,
in order, that you might discover in him that presumption of character
which you cannot see in yourselves. For neither he nor you can have any
claim or title to POLITICAL REPRESENTATION.
When men have departed from the right way, it is no wonder that they
stumble and fall. And it is evident from the manner in which ye have
managed your testimony, that politics, (as a religious body of men)
is not your proper Walk; for however well adapted it might appear to you,
it is, nevertheless, a jumble of good and bad put unwisely together,
and the conclusion drawn therefrom, both unnatural and unjust.
Common Sense |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: the formation of genera alone. If, in our diagram, we suppose the amount
of change represented by each successive group of diverging dotted lines to
be very great, the forms marked a14 to p14, those marked b14 and f14, and
those marked o14 to m14, will form three very distinct genera. We shall
also have two very distinct genera descended from (I) and as these latter
two genera, both from continued divergence of character and from
inheritance from a different parent, will differ widely from the three
genera descended from (A), the two little groups of genera will form two
distinct families, or even orders, according to the amount of divergent
modification supposed to be represented in the diagram. And the two new
families, or orders, will have descended from two species of the original
On the Origin of Species |
