| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: added, with a touch of compunction, "this is not your quarrel. You and
your servant have horses. Slip out, if you will, and gallop hard to the
lower drift. You may get away with your lives."
Then my white man's pride came to my aid.
"Nay," I answered, "I will not run while others stay to fight."
"I never thought you would, Macumazahn, who, I am sure, do not wish to
earn a new and ugly name. Well, neither will the Amawombe run to become
a mock among their people. The King's orders were that we should try to
help Umbelazi, if the battle went against him. We obey the King's
orders by dying where we stand. Macumazahn, do you think that you could
hit that big fellow who is shouting insults at us there? If so, I
Child of Storm |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: against the LORD.
LEV 6:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
LEV 6:2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie
unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in
fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his
neighbour;
LEV 6:3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and
sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
LEV 6:4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that
he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which
he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: prescience Polybius saw the world's fate when he foretold the
material sovereignty of Roman institutions and exemplified in
himself the intellectual empire of Greece.
The course of the study of the spirit of historical criticism has
not been a profitless investigation into modes and forms of thought
now antiquated and of no account. The only spirit which is
entirely removed from us is the mediaeval; the Greek spirit is
essentially modern. The introduction of the comparative method of
research which has forced history to disclose its secrets belongs
in a measure to us. Ours, too, is a more scientific knowledge of
philology and the method of survival. Nor did the ancients know
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