| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: of DAMAGED GOODS must be, I would consider that I had achieved
the triumph of my life.
COMMISSIONER CUNO H. RUDOLPH--I was deeply impressed by what I
saw, and I think that the drama should be repeated in every city,
a matinee one day for father and son and the next day for mother
and daughter.
REV. EARLE WILFLEY--I am confirmed in the opinion that we must
take up our cudgels in a crusade against the modern problems
brought to the fore by DAMAGED GOODS. The report that these
diseases are increasing is enough to make us get busy on a
campaign against them.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: secular existence.
That the scrupulosity of purity may be carried to a fantastic
extreme must be admitted. In this it resembles Asceticism, to
which further symptom of saintliness we had better turn next.
The adjective "ascetic" is applied to conduct originating on
diverse psychological levels, which I might as well begin by
distinguishing from one another.
1. Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood,
disgusted with too much ease.
2. Temperance in meat and drink, simplicity of apparel,
chastity, and non-pampering of the body generally, may be fruits
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: sister, who was nagging the servant as she set the table, of the
dampness which was coming out in spots upon the plaster. The barometer
was Rogron's most useful bit of property. He consulted it at all
hours, tapped it familiarly like a friend, saying: "Vile weather!" to
which his sister would reply, "Pooh! it is only seasonable." If any
one called to see him the excellence of that instrument was his chief
topic of conversation.
Breakfast took up some little time; with what deliberation those two
human beings masticated their food! Their digestions were perfect;
cancer of the stomach was not to be dreaded by them. They managed to
get along till twelve o'clock by reading the "Bee-hive" and the
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