| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: while at the stern a number of galleries built one above another
into a castle gave shelter to several companies of musketeers as
well as the officers commanding them.
Our hero could behold the approach of this galley from above the
starboard bulwarks, and it appeared to him impossible for them to
hope to escape either it or the man-of-war. But still Captain
Morgan maintained the same composure that he had exhibited all
the while, only now and then delivering an order to the man at
the wheel, who, putting the helm over, threw the bows of the
galleon around more to the larboard, as though to escape the bow
of the galley and get into the open water beyond. This course
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: with food he can not set in and eat a regular dinner. He must be
fed on a teaspoonful of soup, and it is many months before his
muscles come back, his organs regain their normal size and he is
a well-fed man again. So it is with the industrial state. It can
be starved by crop failures, by war waste or by labor slacking on
the job. Anything that lessens the output of field and factory,
whether it be heaven's drought or man's loafing, starves the
economic state and starves all men in it. If crop failure should
last long enough, as it does in China, millions of men would die.
If war lasts long enough, as it did in Austria, millions of
citizens must starve. If labor should try slacking, as it did in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: know who are the fellows of the level way, and who are guided!'
THE CHAPTER OF THE PROPHETS
(XXI. Mecca.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
Their reckoning draws nigh to men, yet in heedlessness they turn
aside.
No reminder comes to them from their Lord of late, but they listen
while they mock, and their hearts make sport thereof! And those who do
wrong discourse secretly (saying), 'Is this man aught but a mortal
like yourselves? will ye accede to magic, while ye can see?'
Say, 'My Lord knows what is said in the heavens and the earth, He
The Koran |
