| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: circle from which nothing but a large import of engines and
wagons will provide an outlet. Timber can be floated down
the rivers. Yes, but it must be brought to the rivers. Surely
horses can do that. Yes, but, horses must be fed, and oats
do not grow in the forests. For example, this spring (1920)
the best organized timber production was in Perm
Government. There sixteen thousand horses have been
mobilized for the work, but further development is
impossible for lack of forage. A telegram bitterly reports,
"Two trains of oats from Ekaterinburg are expected day by
day. If the oats arrive in time a considerable success will be
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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: lover of the good," alone with his God, visits the sick, etc.,
for their own sakes, with the elaborate "business" that goes on
in Catholic devotion, and carries with it the social excitement
of all more complex businesses. An essentially worldly-minded
Catholic woman can become a visitor of the sick on purely
coquettish principles, with her confessor and director, her
"merit" storing up, her patron saints, her privileged relation to
the Almighty, drawing his attention as a professional devote, her
definite "exercises," and her definitely recognized social pose
in the organization.
In most books on religion, three things are represented as its
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: GEN 4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my
voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a
man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
GEN 4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and
sevenfold.
GEN 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called
his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead
of Abel, whom Cain slew.
GEN 4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called
his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
GEN 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that
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