| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: hast gotten thee safe through the world," said he, with more
kindness in his harsh voice than was usual. "But get thee not
into fights before thy time." Then he charged the boy very
seriously to live at peace with his fellow-squires, and for his
father's sake as well as his own to enter into none of the broils
that were so frequent in their quarters.
It was with this special admonition against brawling that Myles
was dismissed, to enter, before five minutes had passed, into the
first really great fight of his life.
Besides Gascoyne and Wilkes, he found gathered in the dormitory
six or eight of the company of squires who were to serve that day
Men of Iron |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: Honorine
The Seamy Side of History
The Magic Skin
A Second Home
Letters of Two Brides
The Muse of the Department
The Imaginary Mistress
The Middle Classes
Cousin Betty
The Country Parson
In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: expose to a converting influence a subject in whom three factors
unite: first, pronounced emotional sensibility; second, tendency
to automatisms; and third, suggestibility of the passive type;
you might then safely predict the result: there would be a
sudden conversion, a transformation of the striking kind.
[127] In his book, The Spiritual Life, New York, 1900.
[128] Op. cit., p. 112.
Does this temperamental origin diminish the significance of the
sudden conversion when it has occurred? Not in the least, as
Professor Coe well says; for "the ultimate test of religious
values is nothing psychological, nothing definable in terms of
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