| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: much vexed thereat, for he had been brought up on the old man's
knee, and hurrying off to find him met Tyrker coming back twisting
his eyes about--a trick of his--smacking his lips and talking German
to himself in high excitement. And when they get him to talk Norse
again, he says: "I have not been far, but I have news for you. I
have found vines and grapes!" "Is that true, foster-father?" says
Leif. "True it is," says the old German, "for I was brought up
where there was never any lack of them."
The saga--as given by Rafn--had a detailed description of this
quaint personage's appearance; and it would not he amiss if American
wine-growers should employ an American sculptor--and there are great
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: they will not believe except a few.
O ye who have been given the Book! believe in what we have revealed,
confirming what ye had before; ere we deface your faces and turn
them into hinder parts, or curse you as we cursed the fellows of the
Sabbath when God's command was done.
Verily, God pardons not associating aught with Him, but He pardons
anything short of that to whomsoever He pleases; but he who associates
aught with God, he hath devised a mighty sin.
Do ye not see those who purify themselves? nay, God purifies whom He
will, and they shall not be wronged a straw.
Behold, how they devise against God a lie, and that is manifest
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: such case do I not speak of both?
Yes.
And must not that which is correctly called both, be also two?
Undoubtedly.
And of two things how can either by any possibility not be one?
It cannot.
Then, if the individuals of the pair are together two, they must be
severally one?
Clearly.
And if each of them is one, then by the addition of any one to any pair,
the whole becomes three?
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