| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: Contrary to his own expectations, the gentleman named was
embarrassed "The sheriff, he summoned me to serve," was his lame
defense.
"And so y'u threw down your friends. Good boy!"
"A man's got to back the law up, ain't he?"
Mac turned his shoulder on him rather pointedly. "There isn't any
need of keeping that gag in my friend's mouth any longer," he
suggested to Burns.
"That's right, too. Take it out, boys. I got to do my duty, but I
don't aim to make any gentleman more uncomfortable than I can
help. I want everything to be pleasant all round."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: kitchen, but found no one. Then she cried again: 'Where are you?' 'Ah,
here in the bed, I am sleeping,' cried the third drop of blood. She
went into the room to the bed. What did she see there? Her own child,
whose head she had cut off, bathed in her blood. The witch fell into a
passion, sprang to the window, and as she could look forth quite far
into the world, she perceived her stepdaughter hurrying away with her
sweetheart Roland. 'That shall not help you,' cried she, 'even if you
have got a long way off, you shall still not escape me.' She put on
her many-league boots, in which she covered an hour's walk at every
step, and it was not long before she overtook them. The girl, however,
when she saw the old woman striding towards her, changed, with her
Grimm's Fairy Tales |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: some voice from the East, have been alien to the mind of Europe.
d. The Psychology which is found in common language is in some degree
verified by experience, but not in such a manner as to give it the
character of an exact science. We cannot say that words always correspond
to facts. Common language represents the mind from different and even
opposite points of view, which cannot be all of them equally true (compare
Cratylus). Yet from diversity of statements and opinions may be obtained a
nearer approach to the truth than is to be gained from any one of them. It
also tends to correct itself, because it is gradually brought nearer to the
common sense of mankind. There are some leading categories or
classifications of thought, which, though unverified, must always remain
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