| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: they never did them! My mother boiled soap with bushes, and I will boil
soap with bushes. If the wrath of God is to fall upon this land," said
Tant Sannie, with the serenity of conscious virtue, "it shall not be
through me."
"Let them make their steam-wagons and their fire-carriages; let them go on
as though the dear Lord didn't know what he was about when He gave horses
and oxen legs--the destruction of the Lord will follow them. I don't know
how such people read their Bibles. When do we hear of Moses or Noah riding
in a railway? The Lord sent fire-carriages out of heaven in those days:
there's no chance of His sending them for us if we go on in this way," said
Tant Sannie sorrowfully, thinking of the splendid chance which this
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw: denounce the rich, but that he should weigh them both in the same
balance. Now whoever will read Lear and Measure for Measure will find
stamped on his mind such an appalled sense of the danger of dressing
man in a little brief authority, such a merciless stripping of the
purple from the "poor, bare, forked animal" that calls itself a king
and fancies itself a god, that one wonders what was the real nature of
the mysterious restraint that kept "Eliza and our James" from teaching
Shakespear to be civil to crowned heads, just as one wonders why
Tolstoy was allowed to go free when so many less terrible levellers
went to the galleys or Siberia. From the mature Shakespear we get no
such scenes of village snobbery as that between the stage country
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: patiantur, obsidesque uti inter sese dent perficit: Sequani, ne itinere
Helvetios prohibeant, Helvetii, ut sine maleficio et iniuria transeant.
Caesari renuntiatur Helvetiis esse in animo per agrum Sequanorum et
Haeduorum iter in Santonum fines facere, qui non longe a Tolosatium
finibus absunt, quae civitas est in provincia. Id si fieret, intellegebat
magno cum periculo provinciae futurum ut homines bellicosos, populi Romani
inimicos, locis patentibus maximeque frumentariis finitimos haberet. Ob
eas causas ei munitioni quam fecerat T. Labienum legatum praeficit; ipse
in Italiam magnis itineribus contendit duasque ibi legiones conscribit et
tres, quae circum Aquileiam hiemabant, ex hibernis educit et, qua proximum
iter in ulteriorem Galliam per Alpes erat, cum his quinque legionibus ire
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