| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: adunaton. Soph.
Since the above essay first appeared, many books on Psychology have been
given to the world, partly based upon the views of Herbart and other German
philosophers, partly independent of them. The subject has gained in bulk
and extent; whether it has had any true growth is more doubtful. It begins
to assume the language and claim the authority of a science; but it is only
an hypothesis or outline, which may be filled up in many ways according to
the fancy of individual thinkers. The basis of it is a precarious one,--
consciousness of ourselves and a somewhat uncertain observation of the rest
of mankind. Its relations to other sciences are not yet determined: they
seem to be almost too complicated to be ascertained. It may be compared to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: and bare, and washed out in winding gullies by the rain.
Beyond the corncribs, at the bottom of the shallow draw,
was a muddy little pond, with rusty willow bushes growing about it.
The road from the post-office came directly by our door,
crossed the farmyard, and curved round this little pond,
beyond which it began to climb the gentle swell of unbroken
prairie to the west. There, along the western sky-line it skirted
a great cornfield, much larger than any field I had ever seen.
This cornfield, and the sorghum patch behind the barn,
were the only broken land in sight. Everywhere, as far as the eye
could reach, there was nothing but rough, shaggy, red grass,
My Antonia |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: have had a wonderful power of persuading the wild buccaneers
under him to submit everything to his judgment, and to rely
entirely upon his word. In spite of the vast sum of money that he
had very evidently made away with, recruits poured in upon him,
until his band was larger and better equipped than ever.
And now it was determined that the plunder harvest was ripe at
Porto Bello, and that city's doom was sealed. The town was
defended by two strong castles thoroughly manned, and officered
by as gallant a soldier as ever carried Toledo steel at his side.
But strong castles and gallant soldiers weighed not a barleycorn
with the buccaneers when their blood was stirred by the lust of
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
