| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: He sende, in bokes as I finde: 1050
And he be name Bachus hihte,
Which afterward, whan that he mihte,
A wastour was, and al his rente
In wyn and bordel he despente.
Bot yit, al were he wonder badde,
Among the Greks a name he hadde;
Thei cleped him the god of wyn,
And thus a glotoun was dyvyn.
Ther was yit Esculapius
A godd in thilke time as thus. 1060
Confessio Amantis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau: understand it. Can there not be a government in which the
majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but
conscience?--in which majorities decide only those questions
to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the
citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign
his conscience to the legislator? WHy has every man a
conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and
subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a
respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only
obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any
time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: "Now I am sure that you are a liar," said Dingaan triumphantly. "You
say that you are English and therefore serve your king, or the
Inkosikaas" (that is the Great Lady), "who they tell me now sits in his
place. How does it come about then that you are travelling with a party
of these very Amaboona who must be your enemies, since they are the
enemies of your king, or of her who follows after him?"
Now I knew that I was in a tight place, for on this matter of loyalty,
Zulu, and indeed all native ideas, are very primitive. If I said that I
had sympathy with the Boers, Dingaan would set me down as a traitor. If
I said that I hated the Boers, then still I should be a traitor because
I associated with them, and a traitor in his eyes would be one to be
Marie |
