| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: said, our natural and seemingly inevitable goal. But which
equality? For there are two--a true one and a false; a noble and a
base; a healthful and a ruinous. There is the truly divine
equality, and there is the brute equality of sheep and oxen, and of
flies and worms. There is the equality which is founded on mutual
envy. The equality which respects others, and the equality which
asserts itself. The equality which longs to raise all alike, and
the equality which desires to pull down all alike. The equality
which says: Thou art as good as I, and it may be better too, in
the sight of God. And the equality which says: I am as good as
thou, and will therefore see if I cannot master thee.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: which the Author has discovered, in the third, certain of the rules of
Morals which he has deduced from this Method; in the fourth, the
reasonings by which he establishes the existence of God and of the Human
Soul, which are the foundations of his Metaphysic; in the fifth, the order
of the Physical questions which he has investigated, and, in particular,
the explication of the motion of the heart and of some other difficulties
pertaining to Medicine, as also the difference between the soul of man and
that of the brutes; and, in the last, what the Author believes to be
required in order to greater advancement in the investigation of Nature
than has yet been made, with the reasons that have induced him to write.
PART 1
Reason Discourse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: D'Artagnan thought of all these matters. He remembered how
at the Louvre he had often seen, as she passed by him in the
full radiance of her dazzling charms, the beautiful Madame
de Longueville. He thought of Aramis, who, without
possessing any greater advantages than himself, had formerly
been the lover of Madame de Chevreuse, who had been to a
former court what Madame de Longueville was in that day; and
he wondered how it was that there should be in the world
people who succeed in every wish, some in ambition, others
in love, whilst others, either from chance, or from
ill-luck, or from some natural defect or impediment, remain
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