| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: "Of course we have faults--all of us," she said. "In one way
you might say that we have more than we used to--that is, our
standard of perfection seems to get farther and farther away. But
we are not discouraged, because our records do show gain--
considerable gain.
"When we began--even with the start of one particularly
noble mother--we inherited the characteristics of a long race-
record behind her. And they cropped out from time to time--
alarmingly. But it is--yes, quite six hundred years since we have
had what you call a `criminal.'
"We have, of course, made it our first business to train out,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley: sportsmen, have gone back, or been led back by fact and common
sense, into the most awful and sublime depths, into an epos of the
destruction and re-creation of a former world.
This is but a single instance; I might give hundreds. This one,
nevertheless, may have some effect in awakening you to the
boundless world of wonders which is all around you, and make you
ask yourself seriously, "What branch of Natural History shall I
begin to investigate, if it be but for a few weeks, this summer?"
To which I answer, Try "the Wonders of the Shore." There are along
every sea-beach more strange things to be seen, and those to be
seen easily, than in any other field of observation which you will
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: may make men partakers of his divine and intelligent nature and
may lead our substance out of the nether parts of hell, and
honour it with heavenly glory; to the end that by taking of our
flesh he may ensnare and defeat the ruler of the darkness of this
world, and free our race from his tyranny. Wherefore, I tell
thee, without suffering he met the suffering of the Cross,
presenting therein his two natures. For, as man, he was
crucified; but, as God, he darkened the sun, shook the earth, and
raised from their graves many bodies that had fallen asleep.
Again, as man, he died; but, as God, after that he had harried
hell, he rose again. Wherefore also the prophet cried, Hell is
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